I'll have to look into that book. I have to admit that I am an unbelievably lazy person. I'm way too lazy to deal with cloth diapers. I know I'll be way too lazy to make my own baby food. And part of that is being a mom, working, and going to school (and I haven't even totally started the latter two up again in full force yet so I know it'll be bad), but really, I'm just lazy.
But I do want to become more simple. My neighbor just gave us a giant box of baby toys that her daughters have outgrown and I tried to only take the ones that I really liked, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. I have grown up as a packrat, but I am desperately trying to de-clutter. However, I seem like I'm always fighting an uphill battle against my husband and against my own self. I want Nora to be different, but she's already drowning in more stuff than she could possibly ever need.
And I'm someone who totally falls for the gimmick. It's a running joke in my home how I'm such a sucker for shiny new things. But I'll take them used if I can get them because I'm also broke. I totally fell for it when I was pregnant and got all this stuff new that I wish I had just waited for garage sale season to get, or checked craigslist or the classifieds in the paper.
I suppose the good news is that I know this stuff about myself and, as G.I. Joe used to say, knowing is half the battle. I do want to change so I guess that's another fraction of the battle.
As for the packaging, that has always irked me. There is no good reason why stuff needs to come in as much plastic as it does. Plus it bugs the lazy part of me that has to make a serious effort to get my product out of said plastic. ;)
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Date: 2007-08-11 12:49 am (UTC)From:But I do want to become more simple. My neighbor just gave us a giant box of baby toys that her daughters have outgrown and I tried to only take the ones that I really liked, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. I have grown up as a packrat, but I am desperately trying to de-clutter. However, I seem like I'm always fighting an uphill battle against my husband and against my own self. I want Nora to be different, but she's already drowning in more stuff than she could possibly ever need.
And I'm someone who totally falls for the gimmick. It's a running joke in my home how I'm such a sucker for shiny new things. But I'll take them used if I can get them because I'm also broke. I totally fell for it when I was pregnant and got all this stuff new that I wish I had just waited for garage sale season to get, or checked craigslist or the classifieds in the paper.
I suppose the good news is that I know this stuff about myself and, as G.I. Joe used to say, knowing is half the battle. I do want to change so I guess that's another fraction of the battle.
As for the packaging, that has always irked me. There is no good reason why stuff needs to come in as much plastic as it does. Plus it bugs the lazy part of me that has to make a serious effort to get my product out of said plastic. ;)