#impulse buys

Milo impulse buys/steals CONSTANTLY. Food. Clothes. Trinkets. He'll take all of those without even a thought in the world. He sees something he likes and nabs it. Thankfully, he does just pass them along to other people. He's not one to keep that stuff. I think there have been plenty of times he's woken up, however, and impulse bought a lot of little kid toys to spread around the community.

Hazel impulse buys candles. And feel guilty about it because she can make it. Malcolm has tried to tell her that it doesn't count as an impulse buy because it is so small but she will hear none of it.

Gabriel does not impulse buy. Gabriel rarely even buys anything. The man is frugal and tight and we love him for it.

Belladonna has never really impulsed bought but she has spent a lot of money on rare books before. I can't say there are things however she just randomly gets.

A few boring old person impulse buys this evening!

I needed to pop over to the local shopping center to pick up a prescription that I'd accidentally let run out but the pharmacy there that I'm not currently mad at did have in stock. Mr. C tagged along, and we decided to swing through the grocery store across from it on the way out.

So, now we've got some sunflower seeds and corn nuts to snack on. I couldn't resist browsing the spices some, and fixed our lack of garam masala. Also spotted that deodorant and grabbed it on the way to the registers. Don't know how I'll like that variety, but basic antiperspirant sticks are oddly scarce here so I'm game to try it.

The depiction on that bag was pretty accurate, BTW. Those are some gigantic variety of sunflower seeds. Interested to get that, because I was looking at another clear bag with giant Turkish sunflower seeds--but, those were plain unsalted, so I picked up a different salty brand.

Does anyone need a giant tin sculpture of a chicken?   Or a plastic wall-mounted trout that sings the greatest hits of Jimmy Buffet?  Or seven hundred whimsically sculpted novelty rubber ducks?  Or any number of any other things?

No.  People need food; they need shelter; they need clothing.  They need, at times, medication.  They need personal hygiene products.  Everything else, as they say, is gravy; everything else is the lubrication that makes life worth living, that keeps people waking up in the morning happy and excited for the day ahead.

Beyonce is a small god of capitalism in some ways, but also of so much more, for before the exchange of money for goods and services, there was barter and there was forage.  There are always other options.  The three sisters Rhea, small gods of recycling, regifting, and reuse, still walk in the world, hand in hand, and they are not enemies to Beyonce; every girl group has the one who made it big and broke away, and they harbor no resentment.

Beyonce is a small god of joy.  Of chasing the fleeting hit of dopamine, the joys of serotonin, the price tag of happiness.  Of cluttered attics and well-maintained junk shops, of estate sales where the debris of a lifetime is passed on to a new and hopefully happy home.  Beyonce is in all of them, ever embodied: a small decorative frog.  A collection of elephant figurines.  A corncob dolly.

A giant tin chicken.

Do not begrudge Beyonce.  They were only ever here to make you happy.

And to fill up your garage.

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