Buy Nothing Day is the easiest cause to support, since I don’t like crowds and I’m kind of poor and I don’t exchange holiday gifts with many people. So I can sit here and eat my turkey leftovers and feel smug without changing out of my pajamas! All day!

Of course, I’d be a hypocrite (more than I am now) if I didn’t admit that I do have a desire to buy things. Pretty, useless things! I suppose if I had the eagle eye, spying deals as Regina does, I’d feel more compelled to acquire some objets from my 2008 Wish List.

And so, a sampling of glittering doodads that I want and don’t need and probably never will have.

Antlers.
I want antlers to put on my dresser so that I can hang my jewelery from them. Ugh. It’s so trendy, I know. And they’re animal bones, what is wrong with me? Really, all it is is that I want something with a lot of spikes so I can stop hanging my necklaces from the doorknobs in my apartment.

A piece of mirrored furntiture.
Again, trendy, I know. But shiny and fresh-looking! The examples here are fancy and Venetian-baroque-y; I was trying to find a screenshot of the disco-fied magnificence of the mirrored dresser in The Eyes of Laura Mars, but no dice. I think I can talk myself out of this one by a simple word: fingerprints.

Bradford Washburn photograph.
The image depicted above is one we had on our wall in Phoenix for years — now, gone to the sands of time or to my parents’ divorce or something. My sister A and I yearn for it.Brad was a family friend, in addition to being a famous photographer, mountaineer and cartographer. He is the man that rattled my mom’s unrattleable constitution by sticking her in a helicopter and buzzing the Grand Canyon. I’ll tell that story sometime.

Woodworking classes.
I have never had this desire until recently. I want to cut it and burn it and shape it and turn it into furniture.

A home to call my own
Look, a house in Ventura that’s a reasonable price! Perhaps it’s the recent acquisitions by my friends Paul & Gwen and by Dan, or my sorry addiction to HGTV, but lord, I got the house fever bad.

Oh, and world peace. I want world peace.