Because I have a few minutes to kill before I get on with my day, I'm going to expand on my response to jill.
First of all, here is a definition of the word hobby: hobby n. , pl. , -bies . An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.
Because a hobby is "pursued primarily for pleasure", this makes it a rather subjective concept. What is pleasurable for one person may seem dull, or a waste of time to another. Because this individual is not hurting anyone, it is not your place to dictate what she should be doing for pleasure in her spare time. It's her spare time, and not every moment of it needs to be occupied with feeding the hungry, or rather laughably, saving the world.
I don't know what you do in your spare time, jill, but seeing as you are commenting on a blog and criticizing how others use their spare time, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not using your every spare moment to help others. You're not helping anyone by commenting here, and your rather bitter comment on this woman's hobby is not making anyone rethink what they do in their spare time so much as it is making me at least, wonder who on earth you think you are.
More to the point - would I, or most people spend our spare time embroidering on bread, or embroidering at all? No. I personally find Ms. McEver's hobby bizarre. However, I recognize that it's not my business to tell her how she should spend her time. If she isn't stealing the materials for the projects that give her great pleasure to create and she can make herself or someone else smile with them, she is free to do as she wishes.
Furthermore, unless you know something about her that the rest of us don't, you have no idea what else Ms. McEver does with her life. She might volunteer at a soup kitchen ever Wednesday for all you know. If she doesn't, it's still not your place to criticize her. The fact is, while charity and doing for others is a worthy pursuit, it is not your place to tell people to do it. We live in a mostly free world and make our own choices, and those choices have nothing to do with you.
In the end, whether one chooses to help others or not, and a good number of us do in both big and small ways, throwing around an attitude of holier than thou criticism is not going to inspire anyone.
I agree, Gauldar. It's for a good cause so who cares about it's nutritional value or whether it's wasteful? I know I don't. It's enough that they did this for charity.
I know I posted before and I probably came off sounding bitter toward this woman. Thing is, like others have pointed out, it is very easy to spend that much on a daily basis if you have the money and are not putting thought into how you're spending it. It's just not some great accomplishment not to do so either. For her to write about it as though it's some great experiment really boggles the mind more than anything else for me. I can go days without spending a single pound without putting a grand effort into it. I don't make my own clothes, but neither do I deprive myself of a purchase if I feel like getting more. I don't grow enough food for it to make a huge difference on my grocery bill, and I take a cab if it's late and I've been drinking - otherwise, I walk or drive. I like to enjoy a coffee when I am out as much as anyone else. But if I happen to not spend any money on a given day, it's not something to pat myself on the back over. It's just... normal.
Let me rephrase that... how is this a blog worthy accomplishment? I'm as much of a consumer as the next person but I have gone longer than a day without spending money. I think a lot of normal people do.
People are obsessed with landfills and will use anything to bring attention to them - we get it - get over it and channel that whine into something valid. Who buys salad tongs to throw away? I still have salad tongs that I bought when I was at university.
While these salad tongs are sort of pointless and a little tacky (I sing into my hair brush), going off on them like people have been doing here really only suggests that some people spend far too much time online and need to get angry about things that actually matter.
According to this, no babies have ever been hurt or killed.
First of all, here is a definition of the word hobby:
hobby n. , pl. , -bies . An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.
Because a hobby is "pursued primarily for pleasure", this makes it a rather subjective concept. What is pleasurable for one person may seem dull, or a waste of time to another. Because this individual is not hurting anyone, it is not your place to dictate what she should be doing for pleasure in her spare time. It's her spare time, and not every moment of it needs to be occupied with feeding the hungry, or rather laughably, saving the world.
I don't know what you do in your spare time, jill, but seeing as you are commenting on a blog and criticizing how others use their spare time, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not using your every spare moment to help others. You're not helping anyone by commenting here, and your rather bitter comment on this woman's hobby is not making anyone rethink what they do in their spare time so much as it is making me at least, wonder who on earth you think you are.
More to the point - would I, or most people spend our spare time embroidering on bread, or embroidering at all? No. I personally find Ms. McEver's hobby bizarre. However, I recognize that it's not my business to tell her how she should spend her time. If she isn't stealing the materials for the projects that give her great pleasure to create and she can make herself or someone else smile with them, she is free to do as she wishes.
Furthermore, unless you know something about her that the rest of us don't, you have no idea what else Ms. McEver does with her life. She might volunteer at a soup kitchen ever Wednesday for all you know. If she doesn't, it's still not your place to criticize her. The fact is, while charity and doing for others is a worthy pursuit, it is not your place to tell people to do it. We live in a mostly free world and make our own choices, and those choices have nothing to do with you.
In the end, whether one chooses to help others or not, and a good number of us do in both big and small ways, throwing around an attitude of holier than thou criticism is not going to inspire anyone.
While these salad tongs are sort of pointless and a little tacky (I sing into my hair brush), going off on them like people have been doing here really only suggests that some people spend far too much time online and need to get angry about things that actually matter.