I was going to write that we bought no new things today but then I remembered that Joel had called me from Home Hardware earlier in the day on his cell phone. And so I had to ask him: "what were you doing in Home Hardware? Did you buy anything?" "Yes!" he said, "a hinge to fix a piece of furniture." "But that's a new thing," I said. "I thought small pieces of hardware didn't count," he said. (????). But then he explained: he was fixing an old piece of furniture so that we wouldn't have to buy a new piece of furniture. Better to buy the little hinge than the whole new piece of furniture. True. Still, he might have tried to find a hinge or at least to think how to use an old hinge. Oh well. At least it was a purchase in the spirit of our general project.
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I (steve) keep a container of hinges and misc hardware for such purposes, but it is nice to go buy something if I need something I don't have.
ReplyDeletebtw: Domtar has launched a campaign trying to get people to use more paper to print emails, etc. Crazy!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/domtar-print-those-e-mails-to-your-hearts-content/article1547297/
One commenter wrote:
"Put it on Paper", Domtar urges
"Buy a bigger Truck", Chevron Urges
"Have another couple thousand calories", McDonalds urges
"Snort this", the local drug dealer urges
"Pay more tax", the government urges
"Pay unions more money" Mayor Miller urges
And you wonder why we're so cynical.
This is great except that paying more $$ to the government seems like category confusion. Ditto unions. Which is to say neither governments nor unions are necessarily in the same category as paper pushers, drug pushers, food and gas pushers etc.
ReplyDeleteBut that is absurd to print emails!