scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

27.1.06

too much stuff.

oh, shit: i have a gift certificate for bed, bath, and beyond. It will expire. Soon. However, one specifically does not want to acquire more stuff when one is (1) moving to another continent within the forseeable future and (2) selling one's house and (3) trying to get rid of really as much stuff as possible. it was also a wedding present: so m won't want to regift it, for example (we still have the stupid fondue set, and it is still spotlessly clean except for the inch-thick layer of dust). It might be possible to spend it on buying more gift certificates - however - is that cheating?

There are no bed, bath, and beyonds in vienna. anything i could buy here i could buy for less there, especially after shipping costs. it is not transferrable to, for instance, world market, even though they are next door to each other; and bed, bath, and beyond is differentiable from world market in that they do not sell fancy coffee or imported beer or tabbouleh or apricot jam or nice tea, which are all things one can continue to buy prior to moving to a new continent.

i am going to have to buy potpourri. people say houses that smell good sell faster. i have far too many fucking candles already. Does that shit keep for a year? i have never bought potpourri before. i'm not entirely sure i want to start; what if it makes me crazy somehow and i start acquiring doilies? Not a good path; and i probably have enough brakes for a not particularly slipper or very steep slope, or i hope so. but it's on every list of "Make your house sell faster." or it's either that or bake cookies, and it's highly unlikely that cookie baking is going to happen. maybe i can get m to make cookies - but then what would we do with this gift certificate? at least the american express gift cards we can use at the grocery store.

god, i'm such a spoiled bitch.

scrawled @ 18:52