for a garbage can. Yes, a garbage can. 
All summer, I have been wanting a garbage can as we have been using plastic bags where the fly swatter hangs. We change it often but the flies still gather. Especially fruit flies. I detest fruit flies.
I even bought a stainless steel one but then looked at my bill and realized it was FIFTY DOLLARS! So I took it back and continued using the plastic bags.
Now this morning, when I flipped open that lid, the delight I felt would seem a little silly to most. But to me, it was a good reminder because as I have mentioned lately I have a hard time being grateful or thankful or counting my blessing (whatever you would like to call it). Not because I don’t have much to be thankful for or that the blessings aren’t there but because I allow the challenges and struggles to have forefront. I don’t wish to ignore those challenges and pretend that they aren’t there; they are real and ignoring them only puts them off for a time. I just don’t want each day to be colored more by them than by the blessings. And so on this Tuesday morning, I am thankful for my kitchen garbage can.
Ahh too bad you don’t have a Superstore nearby!!! I got our stainless steel one for $18!!
I’m totally guilty of letting those little blessings fly right by me too…things like my washing machine. I complain too often that I would really like a front-loading set, even trying to justify it as a *need*…not thinking that I’m just blessed to have any washing machine at all. In my very own house! No climbing down flights and flights of stairs with a laundry bin full of dirty clothes to use a shared laundry room in an apartment! No hauling things to the laundromat…and even more, no taking our things down to a somewhat muddy river to scrub at them as best I can with hands turning raw from the work.
Nope, turns out I don’t need that front loading set after all. I *can* be satisfied with my old school top loaders 😉