14th June 2025
Well the doctor’s magic did not work as expected. Kelli was awake at 6.00am, and she was not very happy about it.
It’s times like these when my scepticism takes over, but I have to hold my tongue, but is it the king’s new clothes syndrome?
Her road to recovery needs a faith in the treatment and her own desire to complete her journey. So for that reason I will support her choice, but I have to fight the urge to make comment.
The visit to Goodwill yesterday gave me an opportunity to think about something that recently dawned on me.
People in the US have been up in arms about Trump’s tariffs and the possibility that prices will rise, and no doubt they will.
That is because Americans just buy shit, any old shit, they will buy, and China has built its country like a giant factory to produce all the shit that Americans want. What happened to it all? Well it goes to Goodwill. That place is full of stuff people no longer have a use for, or a place for.
I was looking at the household items, amongst them were lettuce cleaners, plastic tubs with a handle on top that you turn and rinse the leaves under the tap. I remember these being advertised on TV. They were a breakthrough products, every household must have one. These are for people that cannot run the lettuce leaf under the tap, instead they have to rummage in a cabinet for this apparatus, and who produces this item? It’s China.
Now getting back to my point, if the purchasing of all this junk stops, no one would be affected by any tariffs.
Just think how much money you would save?okay, what would you buy your mother for Christmas, or the bride a wedding present? I’m damn sure something more personal would be appreciated, even if it was more time spent together.
I think, we think that buying a bit of crap will make up for the lack of contact, that is why, when asked, what I would like as a gift, I say “something to eat or drink”
That would then put me in a good mood to walk around Goodwill looking at all the shit.
It was a lovely sunny day, we had the dresser collected and we finished the kitchen island, I even went in the pool for the first time and caught the sun, it was nice and calming, listening to all the birds, probably tweeting to each other,
“ Hey guys, look at that white person turning red”.
Another Lifetime to go 