Quarenteen shopping.
LETS BE HONEST. I have to confess that I’ve been doing a lot of online shopping. I fill Carts… then I delete them. I keep getting messages… you have items in your cart. Stores are having sales. Temptation is everywhere. Ok Ok, I did buy a pair of shoes which have yet to appear. You know one of those Facebook pop up shops with dresses and shoes many of which are less than 20$. (I have a cousin who bought a recliner. That makes sense with the Netflix marathons these times demand.). ( have you watched Longmier? Or the Crown?). Anyway
Clothes sometimes make sense.
Now for me, I’m newly retired. I look at tops and think they would work under my clergy’s robe, or is formal enough just to work for visits.
However, for the past two months I’ve been away from home with my mother in law. I packed in a hurry as I was going to stay with her while her broken ribs mended. She is all healed from that. I hadn’t expected to stay this long but when the stay home call came out I’ve stayed. (BTW we still love each other). I didn’t pack a wide range of clothing choices, There’s my TX t-shirt, my Metanoia T.Shirt, three plain JJILL T SHIRTS, a OSU college of osteopathic medicine shirt, an Ohio State T-shirt, three pairs of pants, one dress, Uwear, one sweater, my bathing suit, ok that was excess. Two pairs of shoes, (on that I should have brought more).
But you see i am getting a little tired of rotating those. Not because I need more for our quarantine time together but it must be boring for her to see me in the same thing.
Then I read this article. See one of the things ahead for me is that when my husband retires in a few months we are really cutting down on ‘things’. Clothes are going to be one of my challenges. I have many many clothes, So I am sorting them in my head. I think many of them will be going to the thrift store at the Catholic Church in Raton. They are fine clothes, just not what I’ll need or be wearing. This article is a wake up call.
I think I’ll still go shopping online…not ever checking out.
Be kind.
Bobbie
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