Maybe Carrying Frugality Too Far...

One of our two stops during our one preparation-day-out trip today, was at Joann Fabrics and Crafts.  I wanted to get some double-sided 12 x 12 card stock (yes, really!  I have a birthday project coming up), some wet glue, and a Wilton spoonula.  Two out of three was pretty good!  I can get the spoonula at Michaels next time I go.  Which may be sooner rather than later since I have a bug for it!

When I got back to the car I found that Dear One had been doing a bit of cleaning out (in the passenger side foot well), which he put in the nice re-useable shopping bag I found at Safeway with orange slices on the outside.  This is a bag I really like.  Dear One added a crunched up cube box of Kleenex we have had in the car since we left Vermont, and which has seen MUCH better days, plus an empty box which had held a lightning-to-USB cable, and, embarrassingly enough, an empty Whopper Jr box.  Quite a nice hoeing-out job in my absence...

After doing a few other necessaries in the kitchen after we arrived home, I went into the study to do some writing.  M called and as we talked I got the gray duct tape and repaired the Kleenex cube. (One of the main bonuses of having a cell phone is that you can move around while carrying on a conversation.  I do like that bit about a cell phone, especially since the duct tape was in the top drawer of the bureau in the bedroom next door.)

As you can see, this is not a glorious project, but since there was almost a full box of Kleenex (I guess we have not had too many sneezing fits or colds since Vermont, which is nice to contemplate and for which to be very grateful), it seemed a shame to just throw it out, which was Dear One's plan.  Now, don't get me wrong, he is pretty frugal, too, but he was not wedded to that box of Kleenex.  Obviously, I have been, and see no reason not to keep it going a while longer...

Possibly this is carrying frugality too far, but I am not convinced of it.