The Wish Book
Do you remember wish books? I remember looking through catalogs when I was a kid and circling the toys I wanted. The possibilities were endless in the Sears or J.C. Penney catalogs.

Those childhood catalog days bred the wish book desire and obsession into my soul. I’ve always been one to pour over catalogs and wish for all the pretty things I found inside. And with the Internet… the wishing possibilities are infinite.

Until a couple of months ago, I had diligently avoided ebay.com afraid that I wouldn’t be able to control myself. I was right to avoid it. I broke down recently and searched ebay for a vintage perfume bottle and found more choices than I could navigate and too many that I wanted to buy. My one item gift turned out to be a disaster in over spending. I have since realized that although ebay is a wonderful thing. I don’t think it’s for me. I don’t like being in a bidding war and I don’t like having to leave pleasing little feedback comments after the item arrives. Too much work involved. I just want to buy what I want and wait for it to come in the mail. I don’t want to be spammed in my inbox with reminders to leave “feedback”. That’s why amazon.com and I are good friends. (Amazon even has a wish list!) I buy what I want and they mail it to me. No fuss, no bidding wars, no hassle, just good old-fashioned purchase power.

While you can find anything with google, I still peruse all my favorite stores websites online. However, I love sitting down with a catalog and flipping through the pages and finding all the possibilities inside. A tribute to my childhood I’m sure. Lately I’ve been obsessed with the 2008 Ikea catalog and my growing need for a bigger DVD storage unit. Ikea has endless storage possibilities!

A new wish book found its way to my house the other day in the mail. I received a Pottery Barn catalog belonging to someone on an adjacent street with the same house number as mine. I’m sure that lady whoever she may be is missing her catalog because I’ve been pouring over the pages and finding new things to wish for.

Labels: amazon, amazon.com, catalogs, ebay, ebay.com, Ikea, ikea.com, j.c. penney, obsession, pottery barn, sears, shopping, wish book, wishing

  posted by Matildakay at 8:29 PM 2 comments

Spring Cleaning...


Lately I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning and getting rid of things I don’t need, use or wear. And with the help of some friends I cleaned out my garage. Boy what a mess my garage was! But after two trips to the dump, I reduced the amount of junk I had by a hundred percent. Seriously I probably kept 4 boxes total.

The garage was like an all day treasure hunt. There was stuff in there that I haven’t seen or thought of in years. We even found a box of wedding stuff from my wedding, which went right in the trash. Seriously, why was I hanging on to wedding stuff?

What I kept was a few items I might try to sell on ebay and a few items from my childhood and tax documents from my old business that I can’t get rid of yet.

And guess what was hiding behind some of the boxes in the garage... kittens! Two of those annoying kittens had gotten in my garage and were hiding behind boxes. They ran like crazy when we moved this big box. We caught those annoying kittens and marched them over to my little old cat lady neighbor's front porch and left them there. I swear those annoying cats are everywhere!

After the garage I moved onto my house. Gutted the closet of all things I don’t wear, including sadly, all of the heels I can’t wear anymore because of my knees. I’ve hung onto them the past few years hoping I’d be able to wear heels again. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that heels will only be a dream for me. So out they went. Bags of shoes! I tell you it broke my heart to get rid of my heels.

I also got rid of a bunch of knick-knacks I don’t have room for in this house I’m living in now. And donated tons of things to Dirty Spanglish’s yard sale.

I’m sure I have tons more I could get rid of and probably will when the mood hits me again. But one thing this Spring cleaning has done is make me “into” my house again. I have nice furniture and nice things and I’m in the mood to finish decorating my house again. I’ve even got my eye on some new art from a local artist!

Maybe I should do Spring cleaning more often because then I can get new things!

Labels: annoying cats, ebay, Hooker heels, shoes, Spring Cleaning

  posted by Matildakay at 9:30 PM 0 comments