My newest post is up at the MSM blog: The Burrowing Instinct.
Something about being on shore tour has made Danielle and me more anti-social than usual. We don’t go to church. I’m not a member of the spouses’ club. We don’t know most of our neighbors.
To make matters worse, we live on an island, and, like true islanders, we hate leaving it. We just want to stay close to home and spend as much time together with our little one as possible.
As you can probably guess, recent events have only encouraged this.
Today, though, we did venture over the two bridges between us and the mainland for a visit to the Target, you’ll be proud to know. It’s actually a really good thing we’re two bridges and several towns away from that store, because we went in there today to buy index cards, a couple picture frames, and chopsticks, and we somehow wound up spending $150 on a couple picture frames, several bottles of soaps and lotions, 300 on Blu-ray, index cards, and an enameled cast iron pot. After spending $40 at freaking Trader Joes.
I have a few things to say about Trader Joes, but that’s another post, entirely.
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1 JA3 // Feb 11, 2009 at 8:39 am
Ooooooh, suspense. Will Tom like Trader Joe’s? Will Trader Joe’s like Tom?
I’ll save my comments for the inevitable post to come.
But here’s where I think the island mentality is valuable. We used to be the same way every time we went to Target — but after living for three years in Newport where the only easily available big boxes were the NEX (’nuff said) and the ghetto Wal-Mart (the “break glass in case of emergency” of big stores), we’re now far less likely to go to Target on a whim and almost never impulse buy there.
I think I was the only person I knew who was happy when Portsmouth shot down Target…
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