People change their bedding by the season? I mean...I can see buying some snowman sheets to use in December but an entire comforter/sham/bed skirt set for fall? (a beautiful rusty color by the way) My first thought was what are we coming to when even our beds have to get decked out for the season?
Maybe we're taking our comfort a bit too far? Maybe we're too affluent for our own good? I know my grandmothers would have both been shocked at not just the waste of money in buying different bedding for the seasons (they would have had two - a blanket they added, under the bedspread, to the bed in the winter and then removed in the summer) but a waste of space to store them all.
As we look at Pinterest and Facebook and Instagram and all sorts of social media, "keeping up with the Jones'" seems to be so far out of hand I'm not sure what would bring it back.
For instance...dishes. I saw an advertisement today for four different sets of new dishes and could find a reason to use all of them. (Believe me - I am not immune to this. I love pretty, sparkly things, too.) I actually started justifying to myself the cost of four sets and then I had to stop. FOUR NEW sets of dishes??? Who do I think I am? The White House? Am I deciding the china patterns for the next three Presidents (I'll keep one for myself...)?
Am I the only one who feels like my priorities might be a bit out of whack? I can't speak for anyone else but I know I, for one, need to skip the material stuff for a while. There is certainly more "stuff" in my possession than my house can hold (I've started to bring some of it to my office in the guise of making it more "homey") and it's time to simplify. Simplify. Perhaps I'll start posting more as I figure out just what that looks like...
