Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
I used to be fascinated by Harrods, it’s beautiful inside, we bought a cat comb there in 1984 and we still have it. I also bought a large jigsaw puzzle so that I could walk out of there looking wealthy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was great fun as long and you didn’t take it seriously. And the food hall!
I could never take anything that expensive seriously.
Which is why
I literally can’t think of a single thing.
I know I’ve had some nice clothes, but not designer. Jewellery tends to be in the form of gifts. Computers aren’t cheap. Bits for the house ditto.
Nope absolutely nothing comes to mind. My most expensive purchase would be a car. I treated myself to a basic BMW when my first marriage ended.
I loved that car and cried when it started to cost me too much to keep it. I’d gone back to college to try to kick start my career with the education I should have had, I couldn’t ask Tony to keep paying those kinds of bills when he was already doing so much.
I’ve had two cars that I knew were mine, that I felt so happy driving, the other was a gold Suzuki Vitara. I even drove that one on a motorway. I loved it so much.
That’s it really.
If you’d said rewarding…
Then it would be 14 cats that we donated for. Let’s face it, stuff is just stuff, a pet is a gift from God.
They’re precisely why I can’t think of the stuff. Which makes me very happy.
No matter what the humans in my life did, I’ve always had the cats. I’ve been able to love unconditionally, which is the most amazing gift – to know you’re capable of that.
I’m sure many parents both human and pet will know that feeling, to realise there’s a deep love inside you and have the opportunity to experience that feeling, stuff doesn’t come into the same universe.
I could write endlessly on the wonderful memories, the funny moments, the cuddles that healed my heart and mind. The absolute peace of sitting with a beloved cat on your lap.
Please substitute child, dog, rabbit, guinea pig, snake, pet rat. Whatever your shared experienced is. Maybe even person 🤣
There is nothing like it in the world. The memories will keep you going, they’re a gift that never stops giving. Eternal smiles.
What’s more they’ll never land up adding to the junk in this world and the huge rubbish tips of unwanted purchases. They don’t cost money to recycle.
Stuff? Who cares.
Love is the greatest thing you can possess in whatever form it takes.
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 