I do have that desire for heated seats. My butt is ALWAYS cold. But I know that once I do, there is no going back and I will always have to have heated seats.When it comes to cars I have yet to desire heated seats, or leather seats.
I do have that desire for heated seats. My butt is ALWAYS cold. But I know that once I do, there is no going back and I will always have to have heated seats.When it comes to cars I have yet to desire heated seats, or leather seats.
It doesn't take much to remember a great wine experience. We use to have an acquaintance who was a wine broker. There was one that was $125 a half bottle and he broke out of case of it and gave us a bottle! No wine has ever tasted as good sitting in a back yard in Kentucky around a fire pit on a cool early summer evening.
Float On: My "Happy Place" is on my little kayak in the coves of Table Rock Lake.
The only thing I seem to splurge on occasionally are food and beverage items. Good coffee, olive oil, vinegars, spices, etc. DH was in the food and wine business for many years. He could tell many a story about wine tastings where the wine snobs didn't know they were drinking $12 bottles. To me though, it's really about the value received for the money spent in any category.
SteveinMN,
I will keep an eye open for Rochdale Farms butter.
I am fond of Organic Ghee from a farmer-owned co-op based in La Farge, WI. "Organic Valley" brand... I buy it on Amazon.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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pinkytoe,
Have you settled on a favorite olive oil producer? I trust PJ Kabos in Athens, Greece... imported to USA by Accolade Brands, Studio City CA.
Love this post. I think it speaks to the emotional drivers and barriers of getting "hooked" on material things. I think that for me personally guilt is not as big a driver as fear. Two fears: a) the fear that I will outgrow my compulsion for a simple life--that it will become unreachable if all of a sudden I NEED a Cuisinart and a Siberian down comforter. I have been reading about food processors for various reasons, and then I told myself to STOP IT! I like chopping. We have good knives. We have a cutting board. Why do I need a motor to take that pleasure from me?
I remember being shocked reading that Scott Nearing said that he constantly had to push away his desires for this and that. I somehow thought that he was born only wanting a bowl with chopsticks to eat from, and stones brought from friends with which to build his home. I guess that's why the 10th Commandment has been around since Moses.
My second fear is that as I MUST limit my wants as I age into Social Security, I want to be content. I'm not fearful of not having what I need. I'm only fearful of wanting more than I have.
I've mentioned one of my favorite books before: A Handmade Life by William Coperthwaite. He was a huge proponent of learning many skills and turning every activity into a craft and turning every thing into a thing of beauty. I'm afraid that while I've always wanted my "ladder" to be against HIS kind of wall (a Stephen Covey analogy), I'll instead wind up with my ladder against the wall of Williams Sonoma and Ralph Lauren.
Finally, I LOVE "give myself the freedom to hold loosely to these things."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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Some of the car stuff mentioned I would add to, like not having to do a tune up every 12K miles.
On the other hand, I miss things like rain gutters on them, or vent windows.
Personally, I would much rather have a lifeline service land line and pay phones, then the "luxury" of a cell phone. But that has become a necessity out of lack of pay phones, in case of issues or so I can contact work when on runs for them. That luxury though saves me money as the cheapest landline, due to taxes being 50% of the bill, costs in two months, what my cell costs me 95% of a year.
Refrigeration instead of ice boxes. Laundry machines that don't use wringers (offered one of those from the late neighbor when I moved in), a lot of stuff already mentioned.
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