Wherever you are, whatever you may be facing,
I hope this day is filled with reminders of the people and God who love you.
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Please find my new blog here at: www.theunknownideal.wordpress.com where I have been continuing my posts.
The title is a bit deceptive. I have given into the resistance of moving over to Wordpress. I finally admit, Wordpress is so much better. I will post here from now on.
After a very busy week and weekend preparing for and helping coordinate the ACLF 10th Annual Dinner event, I took a real Sabbath yesterday - mostly cleaning my kitchen and doing much needed laundry work. Stay tuned for more purging.
The road to simplicity ain't easy. In the three weeks that I have purged 30 items, I have also brought in a few additional items (that aren't considered everyday disposable items like food or toilet paper). The cycle of consumption is hard to break.
1. I purchased a desktop computer. Annabelle knocked over a full cup of steaming coffee two weekends ago onto my laptop, which then powered off. After several days of drying out, it is working again - sort of. The battery won't charge, and sometimes it randomly shuts off. I had been thinking for about a year and a half that I might purchase a desktop, so it's not 100% completely unplanned. The timing, however, was quite unexpected. I bought the cheapest, no-frills desktop I could purchase new. It set me back $320, and is an "all-in-one" (meaning the base of the monitor is where the CPU and drives lie).
2. A jigsaw puzzle. This was an impulse buy. I was at Bartell's and the puzzles were 15% off. The introvert that I am, I looooooove jigsaw puzzles and haven't owned one in many many years. This 1000-piece puzzle set me back $4.75 and has already provided me with about 12 hours of solitary entertainment.
3. I ordered a titanium solo backpacking cookware set during the last members-only 20% off REI coupon deal. It's on my short list of backpacking items I'm still procuring (a backpack rain cover is also on that list). It set me back nearly $50 - and now that I have it home, I'm wondering why it cost so much. I'm tempted to return it.
4. A non-cotton travel shirt. I found it on a clearance rack at REI when I went to pick up the cookware. This too was an impulse buy, sorta. It's on my list of things I've wanted for more comfortable hiking/backpacking, but wasn't a necessity. I found a shirt in a woman's extra small, which is pretty unusual for REI. Most of their clothes I buy from the children's section because everything is so BIG. It was $30, but I'm happy with the purchase.
So really my tally is only 26 items over the last three weeks.
I'm going to have to work harder.
