What the heck
By way of Jennifer Niesslein’s Internet Presence: Attention, Shoppers:
Here’s how it works: post the directions on your blog, tell everyone who tagged you, answer the questions, and tag five or more people. That’s it!The purpose of this meme is to inspire some reflection about how we shop and what we purchase. The idea isn’t that consumption itself is somehow bad, but that we all could probably stand to put a little bit more thought into what we buy. And, of course, it’s supposed to be fun.
So here goes! Pick a recent shopping trip — for clothes, shoes, groceries, doesn’t matter. The only guideline is that it will be easier to play if you purchased at least a few things. Now tell us, about your purchases:
1. What are you proud of?
Well, I’m kinda cheating. My last big shopping expedition was (you guessed it) at the thrift store. So I’m proud of being so damn cheap that I shop at the thrift store. But purchase-wise? I got a glass pitcher for the three we broke pouring hot tea into ‘em because we’re idjits that way who will break not one not two but THREE glass pitchers by not learning from our mistakes.
2. What are you embarrassed by?
That we broke three glass pitchers. Purchase-wise? Nothing.
3. What do think you couldn’t live without?
On that trip? Not a darn thing. Although Madison believes she could not live without the heart dress (in pink! and purple!) that I brought home from the trip.
4. What did you most enjoy purchasing?
Said heart dress because I knew she’d love it and a book for Noah because I knew he’d love it.
5. What were you most tempted by? (This last one may or may not be an actual purchase!)
We have this hand-painted black bookshelf that was Brett’s Great Aunt’s. We see hand-painted black furniture like this for sale fairly often and I’m always tempted. But this was a chair and it was only $14.99. I stared at it for a long, long time. But we don’t need another chair and fifteen bucks is still fifteen bucks so I let it go. Also I wasn’t sure it was old because the colors were brighter than on our bookshelf. (See, I started at it for a long, long time twice.)
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