What Goes Around

I've heard the old phrase, what goes around, comes around for years, but it is coming around to me now in a very concrete way!

I am famous for giving things away, my furniture, my clothes, my Christmas decorations! Now this is not a particularly laudable habit. In fact, it borders on disturbing, or it did in the past. I often gave things away when I was feeling bad in some way and just unloaded "stuff" because I couldn't really unload my difficulties. Of course I had no idea that was why I did it. It was usually an act of passion, sometimes regretted later on.

Now I am reaping the benefits of this neurosis! My sister gave me back a table for my apartment and this weekend she gave me back some of my nicer clothes! We have both lost some weight and she can no longer wear my old ones, while I need smaller ones.

It is funny how much fun it is to get new things, even if they are my own old things! I guess I can kind of equate it with putting away my children's toys when they were younger and getting different ones out, then switching them around later on. Novelty is always the spice of life, at least for me, but this time it is also turning out to be very cost efficient.

I need some nicer clothes now that I am out and about more and I certainly do not have the money to go buy the kind I would like to wear. Now if I can continue losing weight, this story will just get better and better.