Comments on: A Rich Life

By: cole

cole — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:43:03 +0000

I am also addicted to stationary items…my dearest sweetie bought some plain white paper/envelopes last year for my birthday and hand painted 100 sheets and 100 envelopes for me to make it personal.

I save all cards that can be reused as postcards and I encourage letter writing, even i am the only one who can read my daughters and my son spells, “I mist you ” to his grandparents.

Letter writing is underated and underused now a days and it is nice to meet a fellow letter writer!
xx

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:50:53 +0000

Thank goodness you stocked up on shoes, or I don’t know how you could expect to make it through. I do admire your efforts; but I so enjoy spending money.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:04:08 +0000

David — Wasn’t that a movie with Brad Pitt in it? One where he looked particularly prairie-handsome?

Emily, Prairie handsome is how your husband must look in his prairie bachelor pants — I laughed thinking about that. One thing I’ve neglected to mention about LHPM is that we’ve done quite a bit of preparation for it. A little like Ma laying in stores of jam and pickled beets for the winter, I bought FIVE PAIRS OF SHOES in October (admittedly, on overstock.com, so they were cheap, but still, how Imelda Marcus can a woman get?) to get me through November. Everything else can really wait, my only other true necessity being nice food, and that’s allowed.

By: davidbdale

davidbdale — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:20:25 +0000

Would it be postlapsarian of me to ask if there’s a word for “after the fall”?

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:02:32 +0000

I’m thinking along the same lines as Courtney, here. My first reaction was: did I spend any money the past two days? Can I do this this month, too? Then, I thought, “Wait a minute. You have to buy bookshelves for the library if you ever want all your books unpacked, and you need towel racks for the kitchen, and Bob needs new pants, because right now he’s beginning to look like the prairie bachelor pastor who didn’t know how to mend his own clothes. Better wait till January.”

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:16:21 +0000

Courtney. Darling. It’s okay! We’re going to make our Christmas presents out of dryer lint, left over toothpaste tubes, and corncobs. As for pumpkin spice lattes, that might fit into the rule that we only spend money on food. After all, we can’t grow it ourselves — not the pumpkin anyway, and certainly not the spices.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:08:37 +0000

I am having panic attacks for you. I could try this in January. I could probably do this, in January. But November? What about getting ahead on your Christmas shopping? What about buying christmas cards? WHAT ABOUT PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES? Okay, clearly, I have a problem. I serious problem. I so would not cut it on the prairie or in the bloglily home .
Courtney