The AMAZON addiction...
About 2 years ago, if I needed something not found in stores but available on Amazon, I would have a friend or relative with a Prime account purchase it and drop ship to my address. I would settle the payment when we got together.That was then and this is now...
I opened an Amazon Prime account and all sorts of things appear at my doorstep. Many of these purchases are less than buying locally or online with other vendors.
Polo shirts... for example, I ordered a dozen different colors this year and shopping for another round to replace some older ones.
Hand tools, electronics, rivet gun, soldering gun, car cover, network switch and cables, model helicopter parts and the list goes on.
I felt guilty returning the FitBit activity tracking watch, but when I went to the distribution center, the guy in front of me had a shopping cart FULL of items to be returned. and... they took them all back!
I guess his Amazon addiction is greater than mine!
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I picked up my crochet hooks, that I haven't touched for 20 years.
I started crocheting for a charity for preemies in NICU's.
I now have 8 large Rubbermaid containers full of baby yarn.
My mother had a seamstress business and sold hand made booties she knitted in the evenings after a day of work.
Knitting needles have no hooks to pull the yarn with, so I couldn't get them to work for me.
I remember my mom knitted wool hats and sweaters!
This dates back 60 years ago and she bought a used knitting machine. It was 5 feet long and had legs or could be placed on a table. Fully manual, didn't need electric power.
It must have been too complicated to make anything useful and my dad put it in the attic crawlspace. 30 years later when I replaced the roof, the machine was there but rusted and unusable. I'm not sure what happened to it after, possibly a friend of my mother donated it to her church group.