I keep a Someday Maybe list for stuff I want to purchase. It helps me from buying things spontaneously before I’ve thought them through. It helps me prioritize my purchases. It helps me know what to tell family when they say, “What can I get you for your birthday?”
I have all sorts of Someday Maybe lists (and not just for purchasing things.) I have them for me personally, Tony and I have one for our home, I have one for our kids.
Every now and then I’ll go through them and happily cross stuff of when I realize we were able to purchase it. Or I’ll cross stuff off that, with time, I’ve realized we just don’t really need. Other times things will stay on the list for months, just waiting to be bumped up in priority.
For the longest time, the list for our kids has had face paints on it. I can remember when I was little having the coolest little face paint pencils, and with as much imagination and creativity as my kids have, I knew they would love them as well.
Finally, this Christmas, the face paints got checked off the list. I kept hoping I could find them really cheap somewhere, but I refused to sacrifice quality. Those perfect little face paint pencils from my childhood had spoiled me. I ended up purchasing these from imaginechildhood.com.
They were worth every penny!
