The Labourer's Hire

I've finally got down to doing some of the backlog of typing up, and have thus earned my first 'pay'; unfortunately, on my first attempt I managed to obtain a whole box of scented soap from a charity shop very cheaply -- enough to last me for at least six months even if I bathe all over every night -- which rather puts paid to my plans to reward myself on several occasions by that method! (One of the few traits I do happen to share with Sonnie Hale is a fondness for scented soap...)

The trouble with giving myself luxuries is that most of the things I actually hanker after have a tendency to be someone else's 'rubbish' and therefore need rescuing -- I tend to be snowed under with items I feel obliged to salvage, to the degree that it becomes an embarrassment, making it rather difficult to go out and consciously 'buy' things for myself. Consumerism just doesn't work on me: I seem to be lacking in the possessive instinct.