Getting my money's worth!

Living in a middle unit in a villa tends to  be a little dark because I'm sandwiched in on both side by my neighbors..    For this reason, I decorated my guest bathroom with a little lamp that I leave lit all the time.

At the Dollar Store, I purchased a snall packet of 4 night light bulbs, one of which I screwed  into my stainglass lamp.    That was six months ago...but it's still lit.   Hard for me to believe!   I would really have to say I got my money's worth.  Probably cost very little to operate.

Re-thinking, about 35 years ago we bought a hair blower to use after a shampoo.   It still  works as good as the day it was  purchased.

In 1970 we purchased a Radio Shack calculator..and held under light, it still turns on and gives wonderful calculations...I don't have to think any longer!

The cars we've owned over the years...we drove them until we could barely reach the car dealer, which made them old by their standards.

Today, cars are made to take it and you're able to drive 200,000 miles or more if you've babied your auto.

Many things I would be able to use a lot longer, but they have an expiration date....even a bottle of water.   Wonder who figured that out.  We used to drive to a spring and get our containers filled...and it was good.

I'm delighted that trees don't have an expiration date...cause I really enjoy looking and harnessing the shade, especially living here in Sunny Florida.

I'm glad God  has not  let us know the expiration date on us....and that's why we're celebrating Yom Kippor.  It's God who decides!

Wait Jeff...not ready yet !

     All thru Jeff's babyhood and growing up years, I wanted to halt time...to pause it....to freeze it...because I knew that these would be the best years of my life.

I lived in the present...never occurred  that I would grow old....or that my Jeff would be approaching a 60th birthday.   I don't know when or how it happened...but time moves so timidly you can hardly notice any changes.   I think the only things I really thought about was that at the beginning of a school year, I had to buy another size clothing for my boy.

I wanted to be a wife always...be young always....and have our little boy always.   But Time Does March On...it gallops.   Jeff always had first day jitters !

When he started first grade,  Labor Day had mixed meanings for me....back to school.   When I shopped for his little needs for going back, it consisted of a pencil box, with a little drawer....a couple of pencils, a ruler,scissors, eraser  and a  retractor..  Oh yes, a pretty notebook with the U. S. A. states printed on the back...and a school bag.   Kids wern't wearing backpacks then.   Now our boy was ready!  Sometimes those notebooks had the multiplication tables on them.

Today parents don't get away so cheaply... the kids need a cell phone and a computer at home to do their homework...and designer clothes to keep up with their peers.

Life was so much easier when Jeff was growing up...and I re-visit those times in the memory of my life.

Happy Birthday, Jeffy !