Ever have one of these moments? : Upon seeing a nice pair of shoes for $100, the first thought that pops into your head is, ‘Wow, I could buy 20 skeins of yarn with that!’ and end up not buying the shoes however fabulous it was?
I seem to have driven my brain to that point because I can’t get over how much things cost without resorting to the “that would be equivalent to X amount of yarn.” It’s terrible because even when I order a $7 burrito, I sit there thinking ‘Damn, is this worth 2-3 skeins of yarn?’ Yes, it was delicious and no I do not starve myself to buy yarn. (you’d think I would but I don’t skip meals. EVER. In fact, too much eating is how I ended up gaining a good 15 pounds in the last 3 months. sigh…)
This week, my hubby and I have been visiting furniture shops around town, in search of a coffee table. Our old one from IKEA (aka disposable particleboard crap furniture from China disguised to seem Swedish) totally fell apart on us in less than 3 years and guess what was underneath the particleboard: cardboard!!!! OMG, when’s the last time you saw cardboard used inside wooden tables? Talk about crap. With the exception of the Expedit bookcase unit that I recommended for organizing your yarn room, please don’t buy any furniture from IKEA. (all the dressers and drawer units we’ve bought from there have fallen apart. And I’m talking all 4-5 of them. In less than 3 years time.) What the heck was I doing buying crappy particleboard contraptions when I’m living right here in lumber country? (I live in Oregon in case you didn’t know. Our major league soccer team is called the Timbers and the now defunct Lacrosse team was called the Lumberjax. Yes, there’s a lot of wood sitting right here in our backyards.
I could buy this much yarn for that table.....
So, where was I. Oh, yes, the coffee table search! So we (that means I) went looking specifically for solid hardwood tables, which admittedly are pricier but whenever I look at the price tag that read $250 or $450, I’m thinking in my head, ‘wow, that’s a lot of yarn’ and ‘Wait a minute, didn’t I just spend that much last month on yarn? So why does this table seem so expensive to me?’
But all of it was a total waste of time because my rather uncooperative husband blurts out, “I’m not spending that on a coffee table!” This is after spending an entire week dropping by stores (and he insisting we go out to check out an upscale furniture showroom). So I asked, “How much were you thinking then?”
“$150.” Um…..WTF!!!!
I nearly chewed his face off today at the store. This is the same man who bought a $200 bottle of champagne last week and didn’t blink an eye, yet he has the balls to tell me he wouldn’t spend that on a table that the entire family (mainly him actually) would use everyday? Man, if I were a cartoon, you’d see steam coming out of my ears. (the worst part is that it’s not like we couldn’t afford it. It was him being a cheapskate. I mean, the man easily spends $250 a month on cigarettes alone.)
So what the heck does this all have to do with knitting? Well, for one, all this time wasted looking at tables that were way out of our budget could have been used to do something useful, like knitting!
And, I was going to knit him a nice pair of socks because I noticed he was borrowing my pink chenille socks but this whole table nonsense just made it clear I won’t be knitting him jack. I had picked out the yarn just this morning and had it set aside next to my craft table. So much for that! More for me and his feet can freeze for all I care. (You know what I should do; Buy $200 worth of yarn and charge it to his credit card. Muahahahahaha!)
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