List of Want

One of the people on CPAAG referred (derisively) to the holiday catalogs as "magazines of WANT" (of course, she also had children at home who were getting the toy catalogs, like the American Girl stuff catalogs).

But I think of the various things I've seen either in catalogs or online, and thought, "Wow, it would be really cool to have that" followed almost immediately by:

a. It's too expensive
b. You'd have nowhere to wear it/ no time to use it
or
c. (some other reason).

But maybe it would be fun to compile my own little lust-list, of things I'd love to have, but am too cheap (and probably too practical-minded) to buy:

1. That pink t-shirt with angel wings on it from Victorian Trading Company. (Yes, I still look at it occasionally on the website and once put it in my shopping cart but never bought it).

2. An iPod. (Part of what holds me back is the thought of taking the time to rip all my CDs onto its memory... and I have perfectly good CD players, multiple.)

3. A Sirius/XM radio receiver for my house, and a subscription. (Do they still make the home sets? I have it in my car but it's just weird to sit out in my car at night knitting while I listen to Radio Classics on there)

4. More of the Poirot dvds. (Those are actually going on my Christmas list, I think).

5. A spinning wheel. (I would never have time to learn to use it, or to spin once I learned. And my few attempts with drop spindles have been beyond pitiful.)

6. Those high, lace-up Victorian boots they have in Victorian Trading Company's catalog. (I can't think of anywhere I could wear them, reasonably: I don't go to cons or costume parties and they are just a wee bit costumey for everyday. Also, I suspect they'd kill my ankles.)

7. Oh heck, lots of the dresses and hats and stuff in the Victorian Trading Company catalog. I wish thirties-style tea dresses were still in vogue. (Though it would probably mean wearing a corset under them to give the right shape, ugh. I mean, I know people who do wear corsets but I doubt they wear them for full days of teaching or for working in a research lab...)

8. The rest of the Fairy Books By Color that Folio Press is reprinting (Actually, I might just do this...they are coming out with Brown and with Violet this fall, and I kind of want them. I already have Red, Blue, Yellow, Pink, and I think Green.)

9. a floor loom. (No time to learn, no time to weave, plus nowhere I could leave it set up.)

10. One of those area rugs that is made up of a bunch of smooth small stones somehow attached to a backing. They say it's nice for your feet, and I think it would feel nice. (Though maybe be a little cold in the winter).

11. To redo my bathroom and change out the standard US style tub for one of those deep Japanese style tubs where you are sitting on a bench, but they are deep enough that you can submerge up to your neck. (They are tall but narrow. My problem with the tub I have is that I cannot simultaneously submerge my knees and my shoulders; I am too tall for that. Of course, a redo would contain so many levels of ACK! from the whole permitting process, to upgrades-to-code to not having a functional shower/tub for maybe weeks on end...)

12. A yogurt-maker, so I never have to hope and pray Green Spray isn't out-of-stock on plain yogurt they day I'm out. (Though I think my summer ant problems would render a yogurt-maker undesirable; anything involving leaving food unattended on the kitchen counter is undesirable in the summer.)

13. A Wii, and games for it. (Again: I do not need something else that I don't have time to do).

14. A cuckoo clock. A real, old-school, made in Bavaria one that is powered by you pulling the weights. (The cuckoo, unless there was some way to shut it up at night, would wake me up, I'm sure.)

Reading back over the list, it kind of makes me laugh: the mixture of high-tech stuff and very retro stuff.