We love words in this home! There are words painted on our dinning room table, our bedroom wall, other furniture...I told Suzanna and a car full of seminary girls on the way to school that finding a spouse who loves to read like I do was on my LIST, and how thankful I am that Brother Landbeck is a reader.
One of the sweetest things he does is bring me library books that he knows I will love. And lets me read them first (his steampunk version of Mistborn novels was a fun read)! John just checked out a 1007 page Brandon Sanderson book for me and got it for himself on cd for his commute. It is like a book-date! We can talk about it as we go.
I also love thrift store shopping. It is relaxing, satisfying. I spent from 9 am- 11:30 walking leisurely up and down the aisles of my favorite thrift store earlier this week, looking at everything, finding some great treasures. I make up my own rules, about how much I am willing to spend that trip, and I am ruthless about editing my cart, even after filling it up, putting things back if they aren't 50% off sale or meet more than one necessary criteria. It is hard to explain my process, but a morning of thrifting helps me see my priorities more clearly, identify what is important to me, what I can live without, what I need, even what I need to throw away in my life (and donate to the same thrift store). Thrifting is therapuetic.
So I was delighted to learn the word for this day.
I am subscribed to wordsmith. It comes as an email. Today's word:
spendthrift PRONUNCIATION: (SPEND-thrift)
MEANING: noun: A person who spends money wastefully. adjective: Wasteful with money.
ETYMOLOGY: A spendthrift is, literally, one who spends his wealth, from Middle English thrift (prosperity), from Old Norse thrifast (to thrive), from thrifa (to grasp). Earliest documented use: 1601.
NOTES: Spendthrift is the longest word whose phonetic and normal spellings are the same. Two colorful synonyms of this word are dingthrift and scattergood.
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This morning Elder B and I visited the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Last week we told the volunteer cashier that we would bring her a book. She was there again today, but the crowd wasn't right to give her the Book of Mormon. But she remembered us joyfully. She was delighted when I found a blue jacket she had just put out this morning, because when she put it out, she thought of me, that I would like it. So Friday will be our thrift store try to give away a Book of Mormon day. Elder B says her name is Faith.
We will scattergood as we freely dingthrift the gospel, in an atmosphere where the people are not spendthrifts.
Love our common interests! :)
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