A Trip to the Store
So, I was sitting there and noting we are ill-prepared for hurricane season here. It is not that we needed to get together our 72- hour kit or getting food storage together in case a hurricane actually made it all the way to Tallahassee. No no, we did not go and get a generator to use when the power goes out. It is a different kind of preparedness for hurricane season. Hurricane season just happens to coincide with the months of June through October when the temperature really heats up our semi-coastal semi-paradise. So, the trip was to go to the store to get clothing appropriate to survive a HOT summer.
Now, my sweet wife does not like shopping. It is really difficult for her to go and buy things for herself. I am much the same way. While this works to our advantage most of the time, it takes some insisting to get things purchased. So, I handed her a wad of cash sufficient to cover her purchasing enough clothes to last at least a week in the summer, pushed her out the door (not literally) with out the boys, and sent her to Target - hopefully better quality for an affordable price. She came home with three pair of pants and 2 sets of pajamas for Michael. It is like pulling teeth to get her to go shopping and buy clothes.
I love my wife.
So, I was sitting there and noting we are ill-prepared for hurricane season here. It is not that we needed to get together our 72- hour kit or getting food storage together in case a hurricane actually made it all the way to Tallahassee. No no, we did not go and get a generator to use when the power goes out. It is a different kind of preparedness for hurricane season. Hurricane season just happens to coincide with the months of June through October when the temperature really heats up our semi-coastal semi-paradise. So, the trip was to go to the store to get clothing appropriate to survive a HOT summer.
Now, my sweet wife does not like shopping. It is really difficult for her to go and buy things for herself. I am much the same way. While this works to our advantage most of the time, it takes some insisting to get things purchased. So, I handed her a wad of cash sufficient to cover her purchasing enough clothes to last at least a week in the summer, pushed her out the door (not literally) with out the boys, and sent her to Target - hopefully better quality for an affordable price. She came home with three pair of pants and 2 sets of pajamas for Michael. It is like pulling teeth to get her to go shopping and buy clothes.
I love my wife.
posted by The Pagets in Florida at 11:43 AM
3 Comments:
I have that problem too. And then I have the stuff I like to buy :).
I feel your pain. It isn't that I don't like new things, it is just that I can't feel justified in spending full price and I don't spend enough time going through a sale rack and trying on clothes for at least on obvious (18 month old) reason. Sometimes I just ponder what I might need and then keep my eye out. For example the other day I was thinking that I didn't even own a pair of shorts, then a while later I just walked by a stack of really long shorts at Sams Club. I just feel so blessed. I didn't even have to look.
(I dislike shopping so much that the other day I bought 10 bottles of shampoo, because I just didn't want to think about it for another 4 months. If I had more space to store it I probably would have bought more.)
I wish I was more like you two. I need to spend more wisely...
In answer to your question you asked on my blog: Jeremy is just a friend from my freshman year. We were in the same ward together in the dorms. I was in the only RM ward in the dorms... We randomly keep in touch over the past few years.
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