Share Your World 3rd July

I need to start this out with a confession. While trying to delete several hundred spam emails that turned up during the night, I apparently also deleted a bunch of messages that were NOT in spam. I clicked spam, but I got a mix of spam and actual APPROVED and often ANSWERED comments. By the time I realized what had happened, it was too late.

I can’t retract it, so I’ll have to be looking for all the people I accidentally — with the help of WordPress — spammed. Why they suddenly mixed spam and non spam comments together I don’t know, but they are gone. If I didn’t answer you, that’s why. I did answer but it went away.

Thanks WordPress. You’ve done it again!

Here are this week’s questions:

Do you own your own home, rent, or something else?

We own it, to the extent that we share ownership with the bank. But we own more of it than the bank does, which is progress.

What is your favourite ‘go to’ food when you’re feeling under par?

I don’t have a favorite “go to” food. If I feel under par, I usually don’t eat.

Do you indulge in retail therapy?

Rarely and only when everything is on final sale. This limits how much i can buy since they never have my size and what is available is usually in some hideous color that I would never wear.

I have expensive taste in clothing which means I can only buy things on final sale plus a discount and even then, I have to think about whether or not I’ll really wear whatever it is enough to justify the expense.

How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Ouch. Let’s start with too many!

Let’s see.

• 6 pairs of sandals. Now that I think of it, maybe 7 or 8. With a couple of exceptions, I actually wear all my sandals.
• 7 or 8 pairs of shoes at least 3 of which I haven’t worn in years
• 5 pairs of Uggs (not all from the “Uggs” company, but all Australian)
• 3 or 4 pairs of dressy boots that I suppose I might wear, someday, but some of them have heels and I don’t wear heels. The boots are all buried in the bottom of my closets, so finding any two that match is a neat trick.
• There are long forgotten others, probably dress shoes I can’t bring myself to toss because they were expensive, but I’ll never wear them and clothes recycling doesn’t accept shoes.

Shoes, because the size of my feet doesn’t change tend to accumulate, even when they are very battered. Also, I will keep a pair of comfortable shoes long past their “use-by” date. The last pair of sandals I finally had to throw away had the upper straps fully separated from the soles. They were 20 years old, but I really loved them. I had to buy new sandals. Oh well.

I also have a lot of clothing I will never wear. It’s either too big, too long, or in some other way, uncomfortable. Clothing, at least, I can recycle. I feel less bad about it when I can at least pass it on.

Gratitude

I’m glad we survived June! It was the busiest month I can remember since I was working full time. July will be better and will include a short vacation to visit friends. That we still have friends gets much gratitude too! We are fewer than we were, but we keep hanging on!

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