Thoughts, Swears, and Female Glares

This year I'm hoping to keep spending on "stuff" low, both because I want to spend less money and because I want to put less stuff out into the world that will eventually be trash.  And so here we go with January. $9.54--I made one trip to a thrift store.  I dropped off a carload full of donations, and then I went inside and bought 4 small baskets.  Two my sister asked me to get, and then I got two small ones for use at my home. $19.00--I bought two diamond art paintings.  I need a distraction right now, and this fits the bill.  Zero regrets. $21.84--At the beginning of January, I spent $21.84 at Amazon.  That will hopefully be my very last purchases at Amazon, as we broke up.  This was 2 kitchen storage containers (for flour and sugar) and a pepper grinder. $20.88--My husband bought a charging cord from an online electronics store. $146.05--Two sets of scrubs for my husband.  His department will be requiring a certain color of scrub by next year....

What I Read in January  You'd think maybe with all that was going on in this country, I would have escaped to reading all fiction books.  That would be a reasonable response I think.  But somehow I was on a non-fiction kick, and I still am.  I do have a cozy mystery started, but I've been more interested in my non-fiction than fiction for whatever reason.  Maybe I just need to feel more informed about......EVERYTHING!  The way I've been choosing non-fiction is pretty simple.  I'm doing it blindly, at least for books that I own.  I'm reaching up to the shelf, and which ever book is next on the shelf, I'm reading it.  If I decide I'm just not interested in reading that book, it's going straight into the bag that will go to the used bookstore next time we are in the big city.   And here we go: The Comfort of Crows:  A Backyard Year (Margaret Renkl) Libby  Story of the Peace Garden State (Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud) Owned.  ...