This Christmas, I want my kids get to get less. I don't mean I should look at how much money I spent last year, and then only spend 60% of that. No. I mean I would like them to come out of Christmas with less stuff than before they started. I am not sure how to accomplish this. We tried a garage sale this fall, but as my hair dresser said, it was a fail. (I'll write about the garage sale soon.) We don't have a large house, so that limits our consumption. Still, I feel like we have more stuff than we need.
Actually, by having less, we'd gain extra space in our small house. A friend of mine just unloaded one of her daughter's large toys, and was delighted to see the floor. Then her architect husband went out and brought a large printer, which took up an equal amount of square footage. Sometimes, you can't win.
This blog is about the little and big thoughts that pop into my head. I once read that when Flannery O'Connor walked into a bookstore, she would want to edit her published works with a red pen. In the digital world, we have the luxury of tweaking things up after we've hit the publish button. I can be a perfectionist/procrastinator, where waiting for the ideal means little gets done. Here I will share what is not--and likely will never be--perfect.
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