Well, too late … because I WON! I won a $500 gift card to Fred Meyer. Thank you ALPAR! I am rich!
Anything I buy (tortilla chips, pretzels, toilet paper, tissue) that comes in a larger bag — that bag is what I put trash in. I don’t have to use separate plastic trash bags, and I use cloth bags to buy groceries. Packaging is my only source of trash bags now … and with recycling, I don’t have much trash either!It’s true; sometimes our entire trash for the week fits in one Snyder’s of Hanover Olde Tyme pretzels bag. During the summer, with composting, the bag isn’t even full. I am a relentless recycler.
Back then, I concluded that “It’s not a way of getting rich.” Ah, but that was before I won the Alaska Recycles Day Sweepstakes and got rich!
Now, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I reflect again that I AM rich. With love and friends and family and home. And mostly, I am hugely rich only because of the sheer luck of my birth in this time, this place, and to those parents. I am so very, very lucky. And grateful. Happy Thanksgiving.
No Fred Meyers here in London, so no help there. But as to remembering Thanksgiving, that we did. Just finished shopping in one of the few markets where we can buy some of the American necessities and all, so we're set!
ReplyDeleteTomorrow, we go to St Paul's to hear the American ambassador (appointed by Trump) deliver the US President's annual Thanksgiving Day message to all the unfortunates who live outside an ever-greater America. This will be our last trek to St. Paul's to do this, however. After last year's embarrassing action on trooping the colours, we expect we'll have to recite the pledge of allegiance or something equally regrettable to our British hosts.
Sigh. Thanksgiving is ever more difficult overseas.
What happened last year?!?
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DeleteOh, and Happy Thanksgiving! (which it now is here).
DeleteThank you for reminding us that we are all rich and have much to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
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