For instance, we reuse bows. After unwrapping a gift, part of the routine is to throw her your bow so she can store it away. And if the truth be known, we actually had to move to this house because it was bigger……we had run out of room at the other house for used Christmas bows.

That’s why, of course, I do not use them when I wrap. I just count the number of gift bags I have used (also recycled) and then dig out that number of bows from the bow tote (not a box, we are a modern family) and hand them to her. They then go back in for the next time.

Of course she is technically a scientist (a microbiologist) but she appears to not be using her scientific mind. I of course can see the danger. I mean, if you keep using and reusing the same bows, AND, if others keep giving your gifts each year (some with bows) sooner or later we will be overrun by bows……this is a scientific fact. And I know this because even though none of my degrees are in science, Captain Kirk had the very same problem with “truffles” on an episode of Star Trek that I watched as a kid. And everyone knows that Star Trek teaches a lot of truth about science.

But for now I will just smile and go along with it. I know better than to cross an addicted personality.

Goodnight my friends and God Bless.