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I spent some time this past weekend relaxing, and almost instantly became ridiculously restless. (Probably I didn’t know what to do with myself with some actual time off, after all the stuff I’ve been working on lately.)

At any rate I got the urge to “go do something”. Now I know there are plenty of things to do for free, and in fact I did several of them: I played a game, finished reading a book, cleaned up a little, and worked in the garden.

But I was still feeling restless, so I went and did something I’ve been wanting to do for a couple of weeks: we drove up to the Container Store, where I proceeded to spend money like it was going out of style.

(It’s amazing how expensive all that “organizational” stuff is.)

3 hours later (the store is a long way away — we weren’t there for 3 hours!) we returned home, and I felt relaxed.

Why, I thought, couldn’t I have felt that way without spending money?

I think the reason was that I really wanted the things that I bought. I’d seen an undershelf basket online that would save me from near daily-annoyance, so I’d been wanting to get that for awhile now. There were some other things that the Container Store carried that I’d been wanting as well. Just the drive up there was stopping me, but the combination of wanting the items and actually having the free time made me restless. It felt good to finally get that done.

While there, I found a certain kind of shelf brackets that I hadn’t been able to find anywhere else, that will allow me to finally (with the help of my husband) finish up a project that’s been on my list for YEARS.

So maybe sometimes it’s like a variation of the old saying about money & happiness. Except in this case it’s “Money can’t cure restlessness, but it sure does help.”

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