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.
1 comment:
So true
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