Dining
We poor love to dine out... but can't afford wasting our hard earned money for mediocre food. We love a great dining experience such as the Hungry Cat provides and save up to return as often as we can.
Renaud's Pattisserie and Bistro just opened next to Harry's in Loreto Plaza. Have had lunch twice there and sampled the croissant and pastry. I was excited that they were opening as there hasn't been a true French cafe in SB since Charlotte's left. They need to do a lot of work re: service: something is really wrong when the wait staff consists of a cute 15 year old blonde surfer boy who doesn't speak French, not only can't pronounce the names of the pastries but doesn't even know what they are. He is sweet but bad fit. The croissant is good... but the rest of the food needs work. Expensive and disappointing.
Reading
Tipperary by Frank Delaney. Perfect escape for a rainy day. Worth spending the money to wander around Chaucer's and happen upon a new book by a good author. His book Ireland can keep you happily reading for a few weeks, something we poor greatly appreciate!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Bed Linens
What joy: bed linens. Whatever you decor taste there are bed linens to suit you. Mine being shabby chic I go for the Rachel Ashwell line and French Provencal quilts and Italian linens...
What does this have to do with being poor? When first I became poor, which was before and after I was rich... I still cherished linens... I owned just two sets... one from Italy... antique linen sheets that I bought at Camden Passage in London (which will be featured in another blog) and one set that I purchased on sale at a specialty store marked down from a stupendously high price to a fairly affordable one... Weekly I would strip my bed and wash one set and hang it to dry in the warm Santa Barbara sun, then make my bed with the other set.... why in the sun...
No matter how much the thread count is to me there is nothing better than the feeling of sun dried crisp linens as you crawl into bed...
So what does this have to do with it's better to be poor?
Well, I have wealthy clients who love to shop and fill their humongous mansions with their purchases... they have drawers and drawers of bed linens many UNOPENED!!!!! So they don't know the joy of washing them and hanging them to dry, the time it takes to prepare your bed, and the joy of getting in to it...
One of lifes great joys that only the poor can appreciate.
What does this have to do with being poor? When first I became poor, which was before and after I was rich... I still cherished linens... I owned just two sets... one from Italy... antique linen sheets that I bought at Camden Passage in London (which will be featured in another blog) and one set that I purchased on sale at a specialty store marked down from a stupendously high price to a fairly affordable one... Weekly I would strip my bed and wash one set and hang it to dry in the warm Santa Barbara sun, then make my bed with the other set.... why in the sun...
No matter how much the thread count is to me there is nothing better than the feeling of sun dried crisp linens as you crawl into bed...
So what does this have to do with it's better to be poor?
Well, I have wealthy clients who love to shop and fill their humongous mansions with their purchases... they have drawers and drawers of bed linens many UNOPENED!!!!! So they don't know the joy of washing them and hanging them to dry, the time it takes to prepare your bed, and the joy of getting in to it...
One of lifes great joys that only the poor can appreciate.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
It's Better To be Poor
Poor differing from in need or in poverty, i.e. homeless... poor being not able to afford an excess of luxuries on a daily basis.
We poor wake up in the morning and can take a hot shower but while in that hot share thank the universe for such a luxury... whereas the rich expect it.
I was raised fairly wealthy and once was married to a rich man for only two years but long enough to figure some of this out.
First of all there are only so many stores to shop in... sure if you are one of the mega rich you can buy picassos or chagalls, but if you are just a few million dollars rich, it really comes down to a GAP on every corner... nothing really new, shopping does get boring.
I first came up with the idea that it is better to be poor in the shower. I was blessing the universe for giving me warm water at the touch of the tap... and I thought about my rich friends and clients who expected this gift... and all the people in our world who have no water much less water warm and flowing.... and I wondered if the rich feel blessed.
So this is the intro to my blog.. welcome.
We poor wake up in the morning and can take a hot shower but while in that hot share thank the universe for such a luxury... whereas the rich expect it.
I was raised fairly wealthy and once was married to a rich man for only two years but long enough to figure some of this out.
First of all there are only so many stores to shop in... sure if you are one of the mega rich you can buy picassos or chagalls, but if you are just a few million dollars rich, it really comes down to a GAP on every corner... nothing really new, shopping does get boring.
I first came up with the idea that it is better to be poor in the shower. I was blessing the universe for giving me warm water at the touch of the tap... and I thought about my rich friends and clients who expected this gift... and all the people in our world who have no water much less water warm and flowing.... and I wondered if the rich feel blessed.
So this is the intro to my blog.. welcome.
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