What I’m reading and what I found!

At a recent estate sale here in Linthicum I found this awesome clock for only $2!!! I was so excited but then I got home and it wouldn’t keep time correctly.  I was so disappointed until I discovered a little lever in the back that makes it slower/faster.  And surprisingly this is what my side table normally looks like.  In our other house I had every book that I was reading, hoping to read or had read along with a glass of water, stack of diapers and random bottles of pills like teething tables, arnica etc.  So when we moved and finally found night table I decided that the only things that go there are lamp, clock, kindle and underneath a box of letters and the top is tissues. It’s so nice to look at now.

So on my kindle what I reading now is a book called 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess chronicles her seven month seven-things experiment. Each month, she chose a different area to focus on and then pared down the excess in that area.

For instance, the first month, her focus was food. So she limited herself to just eating seven different things during that 30-day period.

The second month she only wore seven items of clothing for the 30-day period.

And so on.

This is not a book I would normally read but I read a review somewhere and I had some swagbucks-earned amazon money so I went ahead and ordered it.   I’m in the third chapter now. It’s one of those books that is written by a lady who isn’t exactly a fundamental Baptist=)  But the things she writes about are really thought provoking.  Like when she says it isn’t that Christians don’t care about the poor, it’s just that we don’t know the poor.  Too messy, to inconvenient.  So much easier to donate to Goodwill.

Or when she talked about areas in our own cities where little ones are going without food and she had over 350 food products in her kitchen.  We eat a lot of whole foods and not extravagantly so I thought that seemed a lot and I knew we didn’t have many different products.  So I counted.  Once I reached 150 and I hadn’t gotten to my bulk foods in the basement I stopped.

It is a really great book so far and I am having trouble putting it down!  It seems the winds of change are blowing here at our house=)