I am not a material girl

   I am not a materialistic person by no means.  I would rather my husband stop on the side of the road and pick me flowers than buy me long stemmed roses.  In fact my favorite flowers are what I call "redneck roses".  You know, the pink and white ones that grow wild on the side of the road and in ditches.  I always wanted him to dig me up an whole bush to plant in the yard, have three of them in my yard now.
  I have never been a material girl.  It's not about things.  I like nice things buts it's just stuff.  And it's not the important stuff.  The important stuff is my family and their happiness.
  The past few years,  I have learned to be frugal.  I mean,  I have learned that I don't have to have the name-brand of everything I buy.  Most generics or store brands work really well.  And now that I dont' have to pinch pennies quite so tight,  I am still trying to be frugal.  Ricky says that I am the only person that he knows that can take $30 to the grocery store and come home with enough groceries for the week,  might not be steak but it's food.
  Last week, when we went to Walmart,  Ricky went his way and I went my way.  I tend to  shop better that way.  Ricky and I had talked about getting a new computer.  I had been fussing about mine because it's sooooooo slow,  it's ten years old, but it still works.  I had been eyeing a laptop at Walmart and we had discussed getting it but I had decided that it could wait.  Ricky had other plans.  He took everything out of the buggy, went to the electronics department and got the laptop.  Meanwhile,  I was having an anxiety attack.  Seriously!  I was having palpitations, shortness of breath and my chest was tight and I broke out in a cold sweat.  I was STRESSIN'.  We had the money but all I could thing of was the money.  We had it but I am just not used to "impulse" shopping.
  But anyway,  I got over my anxiety attack and I love my new laptop.
   I'm gonna have to be carefull of what I tell my husband what I want from now on.