i love…
February 27th, 2004
…my new dishwasher. Getting him could have been an example of struggleless living. Since Copenhagen had begun to leak I’d had my eyes open for his successor. In Safeway with N last weekend I saw some cheap ones that they do have advertised from time to time but that I’ve never actually seen on the shelves. Now, the tenants of struggleless living would suggest just buying the thing and being done with it. Instead (or course) I got caught up in a complex dance of measuring the available space and comparing prices in other shops, worrying about the number of place settings and constructing huge nightmares around plumbing it in, and even (madly) trying to buy a more expensive one. Ho hum, never mind.
In the end sanity returned and G kindly went to pick the Safeway one up. At least I didn’t struggle with thinking of a name.
February 27th, 2004 at 3:21 pm
I love this site - when everything’s falling apart here at work - I head over to you Michael - for here I find the world is not against me and that the stress will pass, I have only to ride the it out.
And, I am now full of wonder and excitement about Copenhagen II.
Take care and have a great weekend… D.
p.s. still no post - I will phone the local post-office in the morning
February 27th, 2004 at 5:36 pm
Heh, I do the same thing when I’m making a major purchase. I’ve been planning to buy a new fruit juicer and an additional freezer - a chest freezer to make an extra counter top in the kitchen - and will be thinking of you when I’m analysing which model to select. I identify totally with what you went through. The reason I don’t have the juicer yet (the last one was a top brand, cost £40 and was a birthday gift from my brother but it only lasted 6 months before the motor kept cutting out) as the next grade up costs £200+…seems so wasteful to bin the perfectly good juicer and buy another. But who fixes juicer motors these days?
February 28th, 2004 at 3:20 pm
If you didn’t shop around you’d have found out you overpayed, it’s always the same. I bougth a VHS player from Tesco and thought I better shop around first but they were still the cheapest and I’d just wasted the whole afternoon. Still better to look and save money right?
February 28th, 2004 at 5:09 pm
I am beginning to think it’s worth not trying to save money by shopping around but to save energy instead by not bothering Perhaps with the energy I save I could make more money doing something else (or just enjoy my life more).
Not a rule or anything but something to think about
March 1st, 2004 at 12:35 am
LOL that’s fine if you have plenty to waste.