Thing 2: electric blanket

I will spare you the pic because it's nothing to look at. Just an electric blanket ya know. A dirty tan color. It works though. And it made winter nights in Baltimore bearable. I'm sure you think me a big baby. How cold can a Baltimore night be? Well, we chose the back quiet bedroom in our rowhouse and we keep our home pretty cool in general, but somethin about that back room made it colder than any other room in the house. Seriously, maybe some nights it was 50 degrees F. Ca-razy! Until...we got an electric blanket for Christmas from my in-laws. Turn it on before going to bed, strip out of yer clothes as fast as possible and then nice and toasty. But we definitely went a winter or few without it. We like to see how much we can bear. Not sure why. Some ascetic newenglandy kind of thing. And yes, nice and toasty once under the blankets, but if your partner pulls that electric blanket off of you at night in his sleep, it's like the icy hand of death freezing you awake. Our new apartment, not so cold. And new mattress discourages electric blankets. The blanket is chillin in our walk in cooler of a back room.

Thing 1: function not clear

Ok, I'm not really sure what purpose this serves. I thought it was for a checkbook, but the size and inside construction weren't right for that. I kept it and kept it and thought it would one day serve a purpose. It's time is up. If yer purpose doesn't reveal itself in oh, over 10 years, it's probably not gonna give itself up any time soon. It goes into the pile. I have started a list. The "things" will be stored in the back room of the store. Friends will be free to peruse and take anything they want. If it's still sitting there next May 31st - it all goes to Salvation Army or some such charity. May 31st because that will be the end of the year of buckup. Ah, good to be back and free of one less thing.

A new buckup or Buckup anew

Hi there you/me, welcome back, where ya been! I'm glad you asked (I say to myself). I'm back after a 2 month hiatus. I've missed you blog. First up, since no longer doing the buck-a-day-give-away, I've pondered ways to organize my cyber diary. I am buckless, but I am rich in things I do not want. If I can't give someone what they do want ($) at least I can rid myself of something I don't want. Packing and moving got me down on stuff, kinda. I am still saving stuff at the store, because I probably need to make a sign out of cardboard, packing material and spray paint (done and hanging in the window) but at home, I have boxes of unpacked stuff and no furniture for storing it. Whatever. I am over getting my home all fancy, cute and clean for company. Now I just want to leave it the way it is until I can really do or buy something I want. I'm getting a head of myself here, see, 2 months away and I gots so much to say. So so so, I am about to change my profile to accommodate the new plan. Pasting old profile here so as not to confuse followers (me).
My plan, give away a buck a day for one year. I start my day with a numbered buck and it goes to the first person who asks me for money. If no one asks me first, I leave it somewhere to be found. My mundane goal - to learn about blogging. My real goal - to learn something from the experience.

Ugh, learn something. Did I really need to learn something? I'm not sure I did. I mean, I have the hang of posting and pics and all and maybe the tiniest bit better at blogging, but honestly nothing revealed itself to me in the experience. But I was jam packing the learning outside of giving and leaving bucks. Bucks were just a vehicle for blogging. The learnins happenin daily. I have a whole new life! New place to live, new entrepreneur, working with my husband, reconnecting with old friends - how to navigate it all. So that's what I'm gonna write about and the new vehicle will be the stuff I get rid of. We'll see how it goes.