Life is too short for things like drying dishes that will dry themselves. Why do I want to save all that time? So I can do things that don’t make sense to other people but bring me pleasure and satisfaction, things like:
- Bake my own bread (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Make yogurt from scratch (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Bake cookies every time Trail Guy wants them (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Bake cookies any time someone asks me to (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Make hummus from scratch (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Try to grow food despite the bugs, heat, bad soil, gophers, birds, deer, etc. (the continual triumph of hope over experience keeps me gardening) (What’s wrong with store-bought?)
- Garden with friends in their yards (What?? hard physical labor for free? Yeppers.)
- Knit my own sweaters and lots of socks
- Write real notes and letters
- Email instead of text (I do text to people who will otherwise ignore me)
- Blog 5 days a week
- Refuse to get a microwave or dishwasher or trash compactor
What’s on your list?
Perhaps this post should be titled “What’s wrong with store-bought”? And maybe the real question is “What’s wrong with me?”
