Comments on: Little House on the Prairie Month

By: On Editing « BlogLily

On Editing « BlogLily — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:02:14 +0000

[...] Little House on the Prairie Report. Yikes. I forgot about Walgreens. Does shampoo count? We don’t actually eat shampoo, and it’s too late for me to be making it out of lye. And William is awfully dirty. Shampoo counts. [...]

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:43:08 +0000

Oh that’s brave! A month spending money on only food. Do mp3s count? I mean, they aren’t material. We’re still busy decluttering in advance of b-day ( or should that be g-day?).

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:07:19 +0000

Emily, How it all accumulates is the mystery I am setting out to solve. I think I know though — it is that everyone in my family buys anything that catches his or her eye — we are like those birds whose name I can’t come up with at this moment, but the ones who like to line their nests with bits of aluminum foil and bottle caps and christmas ribbon.

Litlove, I like the sound of your well papered house. Ours is not only well papered, but it’s also well peopled with small action figures and oh, there’s all that sports equipment!

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:57:30 +0000

This is a wonderful, wonderful idea! Can’t wait to read how you progerss. My guess is that it might be a little easier for those of us who telecommute and spend many days in a row never leaving the house except to go for walks with friends. Of course, judging by all the junk we just moved from one house to another (that I hate to admit neither of which is a tiny, one-bedroom cottage but rather multiple-roomed, bigger-than-we-really-need homes that still manage to fill themselves with junk), I’d say that telecommuting maybe does not keep one from accumulating junk.

By: Litlove

Litlove — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:00:12 +0000

It IS a good idea. Here clutter multiplies quicker than any bacteria known to mankind, and I don’t even know where it comes from. I have to say though, that it is largely made up of bits of paper, just to give our house that gerbil’s cage touch. I’ll be at the little house on the Prairie they didn’t have endless promotional Christmas catalogues delivered….

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:12:43 +0000

Cam — It is amazing, the way money sort of dribbles out, day by day. That and time wasting occupations seem to go hand and hand. We’re going for the disposing of useless stuff as well. Except for my really badly located conference next week, we have no plans to be out of town for the rest of the year pretty much. That’s when we will GET RID OF ALL THE SMALL CARS!

Hello Ann — GAS! I’d forgotten about that. Not to mention a million other little things we really can’t seem to live without. We’ll see how it goes.

By: Ann Darnton

Ann Darnton — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:14:24 +0000

I think this is a wonderful idea, although I’d have to be a little less strict – I need petrol to get to work, for example. But I’m definitely going to think it through and see how it would work in this household as well. I look forward to hearing how you get on.

By: cam

cam — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:13:47 +0000

Oh! I like this idea, but I think I would have forgotten to NOT spend about 10 minutes into my day. Isn’t it amazing how much you spend without even realizing it? I laughed at your reasoning for buying latte to postpone work. I don’t buy my morning latte now, but a few years ago, when I had to walk 1/2 mile from parking lot to office, I would stop 1/2 way and buy coffee. It wasn’t because it was so far (because it wasn’t), but because, like Mt Everest, it was there — and it postponed the beginning of the day at a dull job. Maybe I should not concentrate so much on not acquiring new stuff (lofty goal as that might be), but on disposing of some of the useless stuff that clutters my life. Ugh! My closets might be a good place to start….but I think I’d rather go read a good book!