Objects of Desire

Are those garlic with flowers or flowers with garlic? I’m confused on this point.

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My baby would like to submit: this leaf. Right there. Please.
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My dog would like to submit: this baby toy. Right there. Please.
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Update. This rose petal will do, apparently.
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Second update. Dog is eating the baby toy. She’s across the yard. Someone else deal with her please.

Third update. Just kidding. Leaf was needed after all.
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:joy:

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Yes.

(a garlic braid with flowers braided in)

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My kid is turning 5 & I sometimes still push him around in the stroller. He’s 45lbs (~20kg) and 46inches (~117cm). We have this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DQ2B8UY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Got it because it’s <10lbs and folds up really tiny to take on the subway. I feel like we can still use it for up until he’s 6, if necessary. We don’t put the harness over his shoulder anymore, though. It goes sort of under his armpit and around his waist.

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A nice warm shawl. I may have one at home but I don’t have one right here.

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Bigger tractor, but not as big as the backhoe we sold a few years back. Or, hell, since this is objects of desire, a small dozer.

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I want this FRIDGE. Of all the craigslisty/fb marketplace/offer up/etc ones I have looked at this one is still priced well at full price for what it is, is frost free, and is appropriate size for me, and also not too silly small for home resale.

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Now that I am basically debt free for the first time in 3 years, I find myself having all sorts of objects of desire. Trying to find the balance of “ok now it’s ok to get a few things you’ve been needing” and “I literally have 1/2 my income of money that is mine to do whatever I want with so I am going to buy all the things for a few months”

I would really like:

  • skin care products that will cure my simultaneously flaky and oily skin
  • a metal kitchen prep table/island thing
  • a tiny microwave
  • a tea kettle
  • a tiny upright freezer, like 3 cu ft (my fridge/freezer is tinnyyyy, at least for how much food I like to keep around)
  • twinkle lights for my deck
  • a metal outdoor table+tabletop grill

I may get a few of these things, and ask for others for my birthday since my parents still insist on giving me a gifts every year

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Approved.

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Bright nail polish for my toes.

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I want a wine I had at a Moroccan restaurant and can’t find in any stores locally, but I don’t want to buy a whole case and pay for shipping

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An assortment of cute, comfortable shoes.

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Also another vehicle I can drive (I can’t see the road directly in front of his truck, not if I also want to reach the accelerator and brakes). We usually have a backup (because no other options out here, rental, transit, or anything), and we don’t at the moment.

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And it arrived today. Now to online shop a frame for it.

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This:

Artists impression:

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We have an attic storage room and it’s great.

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An extra 200 sq ft in our apartment.

Or my own house.


In more realistic desires, I would like a HEPA filter in the house we’re staying in – there’s some drafts and I can smell smoke from my current perch.

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Somebody else to cook. Or just to decide what’s for supper, even if I cook.

Hell, at this point I desire a fast food hamburger. It’s been almost six months, after all.

Adding frozen meals to my grocery pickup now.

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One of these days I’ll buy the place 3 mountains down from you and have y’all over for a bbq

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