The importance of using cash ~

Food for thought . . . 

 Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:

A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.

* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.

* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.

* No more money in birthday cards.

* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.

* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.

* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.

* No more charity collections.

* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.

* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.

What a cashless society does guarantee:

* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.

* Every transaction you make is recorded.

* All your movements & actions are traceable.

* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.

* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.

* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.

* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.

Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

Think about what cashless really means. No one needs to know where you are spending your money!

Thanks for reading!!!

Lauren

My new friend~

For the next four to five weeks 😢

Two plus weeks ago I took a nasty fall in the yard . . . tripped over a hose guide.  For over two weeks, I tried to convince myself that is was just bad sprain.  When the pain and weakness did not lessen, I finally went to my PCP who was pretty sure the hand was broken.  Of course an X-ray confirmed that.  Went to an ortho doc who gave me the option of a cast or this brace.  The brace seemed like a much better choice to me, but darn,  my hand actually feels worse with it on.  And of course it is my RIGHT hand 😡

Unpleasant things I have discovered.  It is nearly impossible to button your jeans with this thing on.  Turning the ignition switch in the Rogue takes two hands.  My writing wasn't great to begin with but now looks like chicken scratch.  Hooking?  Difficult and slow, but doable!!!

But as DSO pointed out, I must look at the bright side.  I did not break my hip.

Thanks for listening to me whine.

Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

Big Mouth Billy Bass ~

Do you remember the Big Mouth Billy Bass from the late 90's?  The singing fish whose mouth moved to the lyrics and body swayed?  Who sang Take Me to the River and Don't Worry, Be Happy?  I have had one sitting on a basement shelf since I moved here at the end of 1999.  Yesterday I decided to check him out.  I figured he would be totally corroded from batteries that were never removed (a bad habit of mine).  Can you believe the batteries still worked?  He'd turn on but didn't turn off properly.  I removed the batteries and tried the DC adapter that was miraculously near where BMBB has resided for all these years and it works perfectly.  A little Glass + to remove years of dust and he is ready to head to Las Vegas when I visit my son Bill in a couple weeks.

The simple pleasures in life 😁

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

Totally frivolous!

Yesterday I had a play day with friend Laura.  Usually my play day is a half day, but holy moly, yesterday I didn't get home until after 9pm.

Our first stop was at one of our favorite small shops with REAL antiques.  Bill was holding a tin candle box for her.  That came home with her.  Nothing from his shop came home with me 😥

Our next stop was Seville Antiques, a true antique mall.  They were having their spring open house in conjunction with the primitive shows happening yesterday and today.  Once again noting screamed BUY ME and I left empty handed . . .  most unusual.

On to a greenhouse recommended by shop owner Bill.  It appeared to be Mennonite owned.  Gorgeous, healthy plants and better prices than our local greenhouses.  I bought a number of plants that I can hopefully get planted soon.  There is still a risk of frost here in northern Ohio, but it is minimal.

Our next stop was the very high end antique show, Earlier Times.  Of course if $$$$ was no object I could have filled the Rogue and then some.  But alas, that's not the case.  Laura did buy the sweetest little pie safe.  Sorry I don't have a picture.  Not a salesman sample size, but probably half the size of a normal pie safe.  The dealer said it came from Texas.  I'm sure Laura will find the perfect spot for it.

My frivolous purchase?  Laura spotted it.  A pug chocolate mold.  Heck, I don't think I have ever seen a dog chocolate mold, let alone a pug.  Isn't is just the sweetest?

I opted to stay home today instead of attending the other upscale antique show (1.5+ hours away) or to the Cluttered Coop, a monthly show at the vendor's home (1+ hours away).  I really need to get the first of the mats hooked and bound by 1pm Monday.  My hook better be smokin' 😁

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren

I think Sue figured it out ~

I have been dragging my feet hooking this rug.  Started at a Florida rug camp in January, I just am not happy with it and yesterday at guild Sue gave me that aha moment.

First, even at camp, I was not happy with this large deer, hooked the way the teacher suggested.  When I pointed out to her they looked like "neck gills" she agreed so that was removed.

Here is what it currently looks like.  So close to being done but I just was not happy.  Sue pointed out it looked like he was wearing a saddle and to remove it.  I hate reverse hooking with a passion but I have to agree with Sue.  So next up will be changing that.  Hopefully I can find the other wool used in the deer or something very close.  I also need to define the ears and overlapping antlers better.  The red wool for the eye is just a placeholder until I change the color.

But in the meantime, I need to hook four small mats to gift and for hook in door prizes within the next three weeks.  Plus yard work and so many other things on my to-do list.  If only I did not need to sleep . . . sigh.  Oh, and I will be visiting my number bad boy in Las Vegas for five days.  HELP!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

If I'd just stay home ~

 . . . maybe I could get more done on my very long to-do list!!!  

Tuesday was my monthly Soup & Pie get together an hour and a half from home.  And yes, we get fed soup and pie by the ever-so-gracious Andrea of Elderberry Marsh.

Today I attended a hook in put on by my favorite rug shop.  Wool heaven.  Here are pictures of the vendor booths.

Teresa's Prim Treasures

The Wooly Horse

Traveling Woodbury Wools

Because of Ewe

Kiddle-de-Divey Wools

Although I had no intentions of buying any wool (yeah right!), I came home with about 7 yards of wool.    How can a hooker resist $10 a yard bolt wool?  I know I couldn't.  One yard was a gift from Sue who won a door prize of six yards of the sale wool.

Tomorrow another trek an hour plus away for the Hook & Thread Society bi-monthly get together.  I am so fortunate to be able to do what I do.  Ohio is truly a hooking mecca.

One evening DSO and I went to an exhibit downtown Cleveland at the Western Reserve Historical Society.  Then yesterday two hookers from southern Ohio who were attending the hook in stopped by for a couple hours and then off to dinner with them.

WHEW!!!

One of these days I will show progress on my camp rug from January!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

It's over ~

Hopefully now I can breathe and work on some things I really want to work on . . . but I do have a few small things I must hook.  Hook in door prize mats, a thank you gift, thinking of you gift.  Always  something, and it's about five weeks until I am vending at a hook in.  I need to inventory to see what I need to make, but I'm thinking it's not too much (fingers crossed!).

The show was good.  I did not do as well as I did at the fall show, but I didn't expect to.  I had many fewer antique items to offer.  I am not a dealer and not purchasing items to resell, nor do I plan to.  Just trying to get rid of the excess stuff I have that I never use/display.

Here are a few pictures from the booth (though you may have already seen some of them on Sue's blog).

Things that I thought would sell did not . . . and other items that sold surprised me.  About half my profits came from hooked items so I'm happy I took the time to make them.  Of course, I don't command the high dollar that more well known hookers make.  But no complaints from me.  Now I have some "fun money" to buy more antiques and wool 😁.  I did buy just a few things at the show (and one great gift that I can't share at this time).  

I have a "thing" about little wooden totes and this one divided in to four sections had to come home with me.  I waited until the show was minutes from being over . . . trying to talk myself out of it.  The old quilt hearts were from Sue.  

There were a few other items I considered buying but by the time I decided I really wanted them, they had already sold.  They weren't meant to be!

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren