Random Thoughts: Shopping is a strain on the nerves
I read the other day about a woman, a well-known celebrity, who before she became wealthy would suffer when she shopped. If she bought something she didn't really need, she would get a bad headache. Usually, the next day she would take the item back to the store. I had a friend who would do that. She knew at the time she would probably take the garment back. I guess she just enjoyed owning it for a while.
I remember when I was a young housewife and went shopping in Wichita. I loved the big stores. There were at least five or six of them, then. I sure didn't have any spare money but would buy something, then I would break out in a sweat and really suffer pangs of remorse.
My sister used to buy clothes that she knew her husband would object to, so she would put her purchases under the bed and leave them for a while. When she came out in the outfits her husband would say, "Isn't that new?" She would answer, "No, I've had it for awhile," and she had.
The lightning-struck tree has been leveled to the ground. I feel sad. You know Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree." It takes a long time for a tree to get big and be a shady blessing.
— NORMA HANNAFORD
