Khan
Gone but not forgotten
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I have recently noticed that (in the same month) I am willing to spend $200 on new hardware/software/electronics, but will scour the thrift stores for towels/sheets/T shirts.
I have recently noticed that (in the same month) I am willing to spend $200 on new hardware/software/electronics, but will scour the thrift stores for towels/sheets/T shirts.
The trigger phrase in our house is "bathroom doors".I have recently noticed that (in the same month) I am willing to spend $200 on new hardware/software/electronics, but will scour the thrift stores for towels/sheets/T shirts.
Can someone give me permission to throw out / give away some new towels I got from my mom's house that are a color I don't like and have turned out to be not that absorbent? I'm "rich", dammit! (A rich person with inferior towels... sob!)
In this situation the real trick will be making sure that you aren't busted at the practice of "re-gifting".just have to give myself PERMISSION to get rid of things like this that are "still good" even if they are no longer satisfying me in any way.
NORDS! I take offense! "Re-gifting" used towels is beyond the pale.
[What color is your bathroom? Salmon and beige by any chance? Xmas is just around the corner for the Nords family!]
You are rich you can afford to waste, you can throw away perfectly good stuff just because you don't want it. You could throw away a brand new chocolate cake even if you liked it because you decided not to eat it. You don't need to put leftovers in the frig to rot before tossing them, nobody will suffer because you didn't eat your food.
oldwoman.. in the end they will not truly be wasted; I would never just throw them in the trash. (Everyone is very concerned about the fate of my iffy towels!!).
What's hard (in a world where so many have very little) is deciding what "luxuries" we do and don't choose for ourselves, given that we have the luxury of choice itself.
If you saw my fridge you'd see few if any abandoned leftovers, and NO chocolate cake!
Can someone give me permission to throw out / give away some new towels I got from my mom's house that are a color I don't like and have turned out to be not that absorbent? I'm "rich", dammit! (A rich person with inferior towels... sob!)
There is another gift/item - remember in high school when you had to read those turgid novels to broaden your traditional education - other than Shakespeare, Austin - I remember the poor dude who had to wear the Albatross around his neck.
This household was 'gifted' to one of the women (When she was still living) a set of dishes/gold plated dinnerware 'that had been in the family' - so I (lucky me) got to buy a made in Missouri glass cabinet to display them.
Other 'Gawd those are ugly' (my sister) to 'hmmm - interesting pattern.', I can't sell or put them down in the basement out of sight because Blondie visits once or twice a year.
The dang thing gathers dust like a magnet.
First cup of coffee grump.
heh heh heh - you can't take it with you - but does anybody else have 'stuff' they are 'expected' to keep but don't really see any sense in it?
This household was 'gifted' to one of the women (When she was still living) a set of dishes/gold plated dinnerware 'that had been in the family' - so I (lucky me) got to buy a made in Missouri glass cabinet to display them.
Other 'Gawd those are ugly' (my sister) to 'hmmm - interesting pattern.', I can't sell or put them down in the basement out of sight because Blondie visits once or twice a year.
The dang thing gathers dust like a magnet.
This is a growing [-]curse[/-] situation with Baby Boomers. As their parents et al are downsizing/dieing, they are inheriting large amounts of 'been in the family' [-]crap[/-] treasures that must (for some unexplained reason) be kept and displayed until the inheritor downsizes/dies and the treasures are passed on to another [-]victim[/-] heir.
Of course the heirs already have more than enough crap and the crap gets concentrated as some of it comes from relatives with no children (or at least fewer children than previous generations).
I wonder if, in the not too distant future, people will be setting fire to their homes just to be rid of the burdens of multi-generational crap.