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Nina Surya wrote:Happy birthday!!!
"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
Josh Hoffman wrote:
K Kaba wrote:There's a lot of marketing involved with art and craft supplies, and it's easy to get caught up wanting the newest shiny thing. I don't do no-buy generally. I tend to leave "shiny" things on my list for about three months. If I still want it after that, it comes home with me. I think the last shiny I got was the kuretake granulating watercolors. They took a couple months to restock after I first wanted them, and I was still delighted to play with them when I finally could get them.
I try to hit my stash first for anything I need, and I am a-ok with restocking (glues, papers, sealants, etc) and replacing used up tools like brushes. Supplies for classes come from the stash first, and then the education line in the budget. Thrift and estate sale stuff I treat a lot like cooking supplies or clothes, if I know I'll use it and it's at a good price it comes home with me unless the stash has plenty of it already.
I like the 3 month policy. I have a 30 day list. Everything we need to purchase goes on that list minus the things we need recurringly like food we can't grow or butcher and items needed for repairs.
Enthusiasm dies down quick in 30 days. I bet 90 days would be a better list time period.
Nails are sold by the pound, that makes sense.
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