Here’s a quick update.
I’ve slipped up once in ‘09. Stink.
While at the Home Hardware gardening center in The Village recently I noticed a display of straw hats, recalled I’d been unable to find my old straw hat, checked the price ($21.99) and my wallet ($32.17), and without thinking about my goal, bought the hat.
Only a day or two later did it dawn on me - I had done a terrible thing! And almost on National TV!
What will my readers think? (Oh yeah, I’ll have to tell them. My palms are sweating already. Public humiliation - AHHHH!)
And I’d been doing so well. No new T-shirts (though my supply is thinning out), underwear (my brand wears like iron... which can get uncomfortable at times), pants, sweaters - the whole nine yards.
["Something you don't see everyday - Gord's underwear and T-shirt drawers": photo GAH]
One used pair of Levis and two used hockey sweaters had been my only clothing purchases in 2009 until I bought the hat two weeks ago.
Last Sunday, however, while visiting my son and daughter-in-law in Fenelon Falls, I bought another hat. This time a used one, at a flea-market-slash-antique shop.
A sexy number from Caracas, Venezuela, for $10.
The new one will remain in the closet until the summer of 2010, and I bet I won’t slip up again.
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Would you buy a used hat? Do you cringe at the thought?
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4 comments:
Cringe. naw. Smile, yes, although i have to admit i won't do it.
;)
~Silver
Reflections/
One Day at a Time
Hi Silver,
Thanks for visiting It Strikes.
Could you buy a used hat if it was the perfect gardening hat? Or took ten years off your age - as it did me, in my humble opinion.
Cheers,
GAH
You crack me up, Gord!
Are you kidding me? Everything I wear is previously used. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Your resolution sounds like torture. But I'm impressed with your resolve.
Are you familiar with The Compact?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thecompact/
Is this what inspired you?
Great comment, Kathleen.
I have heard of The Compact but was motivated by other things. My weekly column was taking a 'green angle' for the most part and I felt inclined to try reducing consumption in a variety of ways.
Retirement has given me time to carefully assess habitual behaviours that aren't too helpful - as far as future generations and mother Earth are concerned.
Buying less is becoming a new habit. Can I do without a more frequently asked question.
See, old dogs can learn new tricks.
Cheers,
Gord
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