I forgot to add the flowers I bought to the gift list… My husband’s favorite flowers are tulips, and he said he liked these even though, as he told me, “he’s not really a flower kind of guy.”
Cost: $3.99, bringing the total gift cost to $14.96.
My husband took this photo for me, with one of the Hawaiian shirts from Goodwill in the BG. From now on, I’ll be able to take my own photos, yay! And that’s a funny story…
Either funny or embarrassing, depending on your viewpoint…
I told my husband I wanted to buy a used camera to take photos to post on the blog, and he said he didn’t feel comfortable buying used electronics but that refurbished was probably okay. I’d bought two laptops that way and didn’t have any trouble with them. It basically means they were returned for some reason and worked on and then couldn’t be sold as new. So anyway, I went on the Compact yahoo group and asked the members what they thought about buying refurbished electronics, and a few people responded and said refurbished was okay, as long as it was from a reputable dealer. None of them expected or recommended that I buy a camera used.
So I told my husband I would buy a refurb and he was researching retailers, when he suddenly remembered he already had an extra digital camera he could give me! That’s right- a used camera right in our own house. He had been unhappy with a few of the tics of the model he’s giving me, so he bought himself a new one because he takes a lot of photos. But there wasn’t really anything wrong with the old one, so he kept it. How Compact-y can you get? Now I’ve got a used camera for free, and my husband’s old camera won’t end up in a landfill. Perfect.
This is just one more example of why I want this to be a No-Buy and Declutter year. There are probably all kinds of things in our home that we could be putting to use, if only we remembered we had it. What about you- do you think there are things in your home that you don’t even remember you own?
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