A Used Shower Curtain Rod?

Bob and I took out the old shower doors in a bathroom in our home. We had decided it would look better if we got rid of them and just had a shower curtain hanging instead. We had no problem finding a used shower curtain at our favorite store, Unique. However, we were stuck without a used shower curtain rod to hang it on. I used all my usual search engines to no avail. We started asking friends if they had a shower curtain rod hanging around their house that they weren’t using. Low and behold, Bob’s Mom had one. So, we had found our used shower curtain rod. We didn’t, however, feel it went against our compact to by a new liner.

Bob went to get a new liner and picked up some shower curtain hooks also. Neither of us gave it a thought as to whether buying new curtain hooks was acceptable. In my book, it was not. The issue was, neither of us had given it a thought until a couple weeks later. After being interviewed by the Catholic Spirit about our compact, we were discussing portions of it on our way home. At one point we talked about our shower curtain rod hunt. As we replayed the conversation, we realized that, sure enough, we had bought a used curtain rod and curtain, but, without even thinking, we had bought brand new hooks to hang the curtain from.

Buying nothing new is at the forefront of our minds most of the time. But I guess it will take a while longer for us to totally incorporate the concept into our lives. It is just too easy to run out and buy something without giving it much thought. I guess that is one of the reasons we are doing this; to get us to think more about what we buy and how much. For the most part, Bob and I have been doing that. But as you have just read, even after doing this for 3 months, it is so easy to slip back into our old ways of buying.

-Lori