okay, i SWEAR i am the only one this ever happens to. but i need confirmation.
do you ever keep something around forever, thinking you might need it for something? and when you finally decide to purge and get rid of it, a need for that EXACT. ITEM. comes around?
i bought a plastic snowflake shower curtain the day after christmas three years ago. the snowflakes were all really brightly colored and of a somewhat whimsical (i use that word a lot) design, so i thought i might use it if i re-decorated the girl's bathroom.
it's collected dust whilst lurking in my hall closet for a small eternity, so when i cleaned out the closet about 6 weeks ago it got the boot.
this past weekend as i was preparing the 'larkin family jeopardy' game for our family reunion, i realized i needed that shower curtain to post all of the neon-colored questions on.
instead, i went to the store and bought a plain old boring white one. BLAH.
price of shower curtain purchased from target: $6.99 + tax
knowing that i will never learn this lesson and will repeat this process for the rest of my life?:
PRICELESS.
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I just gave all my baby stuff away. I better not get pregnant, then I'll be up a creek.
You are seriously so funny!!
it's kinda life's way of saying "ha ha" at us.
(it happens to me often)
i feel your pain.
p.s. i'm planning for a garage sale and now i have major anxiety.
thanks.
LOL!
I do that all.the.time.
Not with shower curtains though...
Are you kidding? This happens to me on a weekly basis.
And it's with random things that I seriously can't think of a single use for.
See, this is exactly the thinking that has caused me to hang on to BOXES of stuff that I haven't looked at or thought about in years.
I lose sleep over stuff like this...
I am planning a yard sale and I'm seriously having anxiety over it.
My therapist told me that I have permission to buy something new if I want to.
That opened up a whole new can of worms because now I have to go out and buy things I want, and yet somehow still keep my marriage intact with my tightwad husband.
You are lucky. I have the opposite problem of keeping everything even though I never need it. JUST IN CASE.
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