when zoe was born, my mother-in-law came to stay for a week to help out at home. she was a little (probably a lot) surprised that we didn't have a broom, and bought us one. our kitchen was so small i didn't really feel like i needed one and just used a small handheld broom with a dustpan when i "swept". once i had a real broom i felt like an idiot--of course i needed a broom. until then, a broom was the weirdest thing we didn't own.
now? it's an umbrella. how is it possible that we don't own an umbrella? i was going to buy one for my trip to france but my sister had one for me to borrow so i just used hers. dave is in portland for work this week and this morning had to walk from his hotel to his meeting in a downpour with no umbrella. the thing is, i want a cute one, and cute ones are expensive. who has $30 (or $80 or $150) to spend on something so trivial? i feel like i would never use it because it's so much easier to just run from the car to the house or store or whatever when it's raining. once or twice i've been caught in my car and had to wait out a storm so i wouldn't get soaked, but that's very rare. it does rain in gallup the entire month of july and dave travels a lot these days, so i'm thinking it's time we bit the bullet and made the purchase.
what's the weirdest thing you don't own?
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We also don't own an umbrella. But we really need one.
I remember growing up in Northern Utah and thinking "Why would anyone buy an umbrella/rain coat? You use them like once or twice a year." And then we moved to the East Coast. Now both of our older kids have umbrellas, raincoats and rain boots.
We also don't own dish rags or kitchen sponges.
I don't own a mop. I used to, but when it wore out, I never replaced it. I just use old wash cloths that have been demoted to floor mops. I also don't own an "i" anything - iphone, ipod, ipad.
First up... buy one with a button you can push to automatically open. You can't imagine the shenanigans involved in balancing kids, library books, bags, etc getting out of a car and finding an extra arm to open the stupid thing.
And also, my favorite is one I got as a VS gift with purchase. Eventually I returned the purchase. Whatev.
Second... And only partly relevant. My sister came out a week before my parents when Magoo was born. They were all kinds of helpful. My Dad asks one morning..."What do you use to sweep out your garage?"... My reponse... after a long pause..."Well this is the same dilemma I was in last week when Goob asked me what kind of underwear I wear when I workout. Make something up? Or just answer with honesty...'we don't ever do that'."
So there you have it.
Overshare.
"so i'm thinking it's time we bit the bullet and made the purchase."
So funny (and sad) that that statement is about an umbrella instead of, say, a television.
We don't have phones that access the Internet, and some people think that's crazy.
We also haven't ever paid for cable or satellite TV (beyond the $8 super basic -- so we can watch networks without rabbit ears).
But, still, both of those things still seem like luxuries to me. I'm trying to think of something practical/mundane/normal like a broom or an umbrella . . . hmmm . . .
I can't think of anything, but I think it's a REALLY good question. We have an umbrella -- it's quite nice and we got it free when we attended the grand opening of a local bank. They were giving them away. We also got a blender and some other things. They won our business -- we switched to them. :P
I don't know how many people own a sewing machine, but it seems that almost everyone I know DOES. So. . . I'm no seemstress, and I don't know if I'll EVER own a sewing machine.
chairs. we (tyler and i) have a couch, a bed, a table. but no chairs for the table.
So, 2 things. First of all, I owned the tiniest broom you have ever soon and Sarah threatened to buy me a real one for my birthday and I realized how silly my old one was and bought one!
We live in Portland and still don't own umbrellas. :-) I just try not to leave the house in downpour.
My offer is still there if Dave wants to come hang out with people he doesn't really know but are fun. :-)
We don't own a clock for our walls. We have the microwave & stove ones and now one on my radio in the living room, but that's it.
I bought the cutest umbrella stand so naturally, I had to fill it with useless umbrellas. If I ever unpack, I'll send you one. The reason why they are useless is because I love being in the rain. I don't care if it messes up my hair or gets things soggy. Whenever I was a child my parents would encourage us to play in the rain and to this day I still do!
Your question struck a chord with me. I can't think of a single thing I don't own that's weird. So, I sit here feeling extremely blessed and lucky to have everything I 'need'. Thank you for that Emily. Today is awesome.
Just because I want to answer the question though, here are some weird things that I don't own:
ShamWOW.
A quesadilla machine.
A suck and cut hair system.
An elephant painting by an elephant of another elephant.
If you would've asked me a year ago I could have said:
TV
Hair brush. (Don't judge. I have really curly hair and brushing just makes it huge.)
Ha. We have a few umbrellas, but when is an umbrella convenient? I already have my hands full..I cannot carry a (heavy) car seat, push a shopping cart, make sure my other kids hold on so they don't get run over, AND carry an umbrella. Not happening, so we just get wet. The kids don't mind.
I had to dig around in the garage yesterday for our umbrella, and it was a big old pain in the * to use it.
We don't own a vacuum. But I do have two mops.
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