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Things I'm Not Gonna Buy (Don't be Like Aunt Moni)

January 3rd, 2007 at 08:29 pm

My great-Aunt Moni died a wealthy woman several years ago. Best I can recall, all of Moni's money (hehehe!) got donated to charity and the family got to clean out her house.

While cleaning out Aunt Moni's house, the rest of the family found out part of how she got to be so well off: she was frugal to a fault. And yes, I do mean fault!

She had 20 or so tubes of toothpaste, bottles of medications, shelf after shelf of soaps and shampoos, etc. All bought on sale and therefore a great 'deal', but as Aunt Moni lived alone the chances of her going through 20 tubes of toothpaste were slim to none. Seeing as the toothpaste outlived her, the chances were in fact none.

Closets and cupboards and shelves were all filled with value priced expired junk that had to be simply thrown away. An absolute waste of Moni's money.

So, while I would love to die as a relatively wealthy woman, I shudder at the thought of what would go through my family's mind when they were cleaning out my house. Believe me, it's a new perspective!

With this in mind, I'm now making a list of

Things I'm Not Gonna Buy

I don't mean I'm NEVER gonna buy them, mind you, simply that I already have enough and need to use what I have before I buy more. I think I'm going to try to keep adding to this list, but we'll see how it goes.

Lotion.
Holy Crap, anyone cleaning out my house would think a dehydrated burn victim lived there! Granted, I have dry skin, but jeez... I have plenty, and somehow there always seems to be more. I need to go through my house and put all the lotions and creams etc into a box and keep it out where everyone can see. Let the shame out already!

Lip Balm
Apparently the dehydrated burn victim living in my house is also in dire risk of her lips falling off from lack of moisture and malnutrition. And I got 2 more in my stocking at Christmas! I can't help it if folks give it to me, but I'm not buying more until what I have is gone!

Ink Pens
Remeber that dehydrated burn victim with no lips? She has a pen fetish. In my 'office' there is (no joke here), a coffee tin full of pens. Yes, a big #10 can full of pens! I don't even know where they all came from, some I know I didn't buy, some were given to me. And yes, several of them were on clearance *shame*

Note Pads
When you have this many pens, you gotta have something to write on! Again, some I bought, but several were chatchkes from my old job. And the job before that. And college... Holy crap...

Shoes
OK, it's actually not as bad as it could be. I only have 5 more pairs of shoes than DH, and I can honestly say the amount I have might be excessive but it's not shameful. I do, however, have enough. My only exceptions here are that I am looking to buy a pair of black boots (mine died a year ago), a comfortable pair of black leather heels (I lost weight and my feet slide in the pair I have), and hiking boots in case mine die.

Nail Polish and Care
I don't use it and the fumes make me high. Well, maybe that's why I bought it in the first place *evil grin*. I need to resign myself to the fact that my nails are weak and split and are a bit funky shaped so they don't look good when they're long anyways. Done. No more nail crap.

Makeup
This is more because I'm satisfied with what I've got except for mascara. Still can't find a decent mascara. Anyways, everything else performs exactly as I want so I need to stop prowling the ailes of the CVS and Walgreens looking for a sale. Stop it, you've got enough!

Hehehehe!!! Now I have a mental picture of a dehydrated burn victim with no lips with nails done, makeup on, great shoes, writing letters with a nifty pen on a schnazzy pad of paper! This is what folks will think when they clear out my house?!?! Oh, I don't THINK so!!! Gotta clear out some crap!

6 Responses to “Things I'm Not Gonna Buy (Don't be Like Aunt Moni)”

  1. Frayed Buckeye Card Says:
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    You do have a way with words, a fun read.

  2. nance Says:
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    When my great grandmother died, it was the same story. My grandmother and her sister-in-law had to go through her things, and they found beautiful new linens and clothing that were in the original gift boxes. Apparently she was "saving" the good stuff, and using the shabby stuff. Well she ended up "saving" it for someone else to use. I think that is beyond frugal, I think it is a result of having lived through the depression, and living with the fear that creatd. It's sad.

  3. fairy74 Says:
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    When my grandma died there was so much unused stuff that we wound up having a "family garage sale", we put it all out in the driveway and all the relatives got to come and stock up, like Nance said she saved it for someone else....In thinking about what I have too much of, it would have to be spaghetti (we eat it maybe once a month), shoes (the sorter thing is groaning under the weight) and picture frames (there is only so much wall space)...A shoe loving picture framing spaghetti addict...uugghh...

  4. janH Says:
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    I'm a lotion addicted, photograph loving, bookaholic. Sheesh.

  5. princessperky Says:
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    umm, toys..way to many toys..no not the kids..the husbands Smile

  6. Broken Arrow Says:
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    My condolences with your aunt. She sounds like a great gal though. Wink

    But yeah, I agree about not being frugal to a fault. That's just cheap. I wouldn't buy bulk on perishable foods, for example. That and I like to keep things clean and simple. Other than that, stock me up when it's on sale!

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