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?”
8 Comments
I enjoyed making bread just to see if I could but not any more – store bought is just fine. I do own a microwave for convenience. Watching my grandmother knit was just fine for me, my impatience for knitting overcame my ability to complete even one sock. The ability to handle curve balls that life throws at me is all I can handle these days, with a litte help of taking walks with our mother wherever that might be.
Sandy, you are heroic in the way you are taking care of your mom. There is no reason for you to do any of the time-consuming things that amuse me. Survival mode is where you are living, and I commend you.
I, too, bake my own bread and make yoghurt, garden, but I don’t do all the other multiple endeavors you handle so well.
Deendie
Deendie, I may handle all those things, but probably not “so well”!
Why I do the things I do? Because they make me happy and being a bit more independent from a store. When there was no bread in the stores, I had some because I bake bread. My hubby loves my bread. I am not Martha Stewart or Betty Crocker but it is fun to bake. Learning a new skill is great. I want to keep on learning new things like baking, learning from a great book, learning by listening to a friend tell about her life skills, difficulties and try and help. Do things that make you happy. I love painting with flowers, anywhere! I love to toil in my garden and when finished, I have the satisfaction of a job well done. These things are stress releasers. Find them, you will be happier:)
Melissa, all so true. (But you are right up there with Betty and Martha in my eyes!)
I’ll add an addendum for #8. “You charge HOW MUCH for a hand-crocheted blanket? I can get a throw blanket at Wal-Mart for $49.95!”
12. OK, I’ll admit, I do have a microwave (good for warm ups and baked potatoes) but neither of the other two.
Pippin, you’re just too cute!!
Sharon, my reasons for not having a microwave are several, but the one driving force behind most of my “stuff” decisions is that the more stuff you own, the more stuff breaks.
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