Buying fast report

My turn to come clean on the adventures of my buying fast:

My New Purchase Inventory for July:

2 metal clothes drying racks
1 sandisk data storage device

That's it. I did buy some used books on Amazon marketplace but everything else was a consumable.

This was not difficult. (But then again, I have not yet gone away for vacation. That will be a test!)

The drying racks - as I noted earlier on this blog - were a necessity if I was going to move away from my addiction to the dryer. I would say that I now use the dryer 2-3 times a month. What will happen if it continues to be unreasonably humid or when I have to bring the drying inside during winter? I cannot say for sure. But for now, over this mostly glorious summer, the dryer has been more a countertop to store folded clothes than an electric device to help get them that way.

Re the sandisk, okay, a bit of indulgence but hopefully not unreasonably so. My husband and I are both eager to walk more, but our schedules rarely coincide. And while sometimes walking bare-eared is refreshing, creative thoughts rising on the flowing waves of cicada songs, other times having "company" is desired. Eager also to "read" more books than time allows, we determined to get a device upon which we could download free books (the library has hundreds, which we hope lasts us a good while). So we purchased this device to accompany us on our long walks. So far I have listened to the history of the Dust Bowl, Magellan's ill-fated if successful circumnavigation of the earth, and am in the middle of Barabara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, history of 14th century Europe.

These are not the kinds of books I would pick up either for casual home entertainment or professional development, but this third kind of time/space experience seems just right for these ponderous but enlightening books. Anyway, we bought the sandisk.

Oh, and did I mention it was our joint anniversary present?