When is too much choice a bad thing?

I have a love/hate relationship with shopping. Unlike common notions of a female reveling in hours of aimless wandering, I’m the type of shopper who likes to get what I want and then get out. Quickly.

The choices can be overwhelming. From jeans to toothpaste, beauty products and even cars, there are times when it all becomes too hard.

I understand choice is valued as one of our basic human rights, but too much choice seems to be doing us an injustice. Continue reading

“Borrowed” Words

I was reminded of this article recently when I was thinking about stolen books. Actually, I was thinking about books that I’ve leant out over the years, which have never made it back onto my shelf. There are so many. I haven’t bothered keeping count.

What an interesting concept though. I can’t imagine why someone would want to steal a book. It seems sacreligious. Books are one thing (amogst others) that I can never seem to throw out…

Anyway, according to the article, the five most stolen books in the states are those by:

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Advice I would tell my 16 year old self

I bought a book for a friend recently that covered this topic (which I can’t for the life of me find a link for!!) and became quite enamored with the notion.
If you could, what advice would you go back and tell your 16 year old self?
Oh there are so many things I would tell myself. Firstly, I would pluck those eyebrows. Wow. I’d also tell myself to hide those mustard coloured overalls from Mum so she wouldn’t be wearing them 15 years later.
So, while entertaining this fascination, I Facebooked the question and a friend followed suit so here is a collection of the responses to date… I haven’t attributed them to anyone, just because I don’t know the perimeters around this. I’ve loved the responses to date…