Eric Holen

If you search carefully through our house, you may come across the secret craft room. This was the room, which up until a couple of years ago, was a spare bedroom. After we sold the furniture, it became Yvette’s “craft” room. A few months later, we picked up two IKEA table tops off Craig’s List, one for Yvette’s computer and another for her crafts.

This wonderful secret craft room has all sorts of items if you had the time and were so inclined to craft something. There are needlepoint projects, with enough thread to stretch from here to somewhere else. You can find some acrylic paints and construction paper. Looking a little deeper, you will find containers of foam shapes and letters, which she has used to decorate gift bags. She also has a Cricut personal cutting machine, which I gave her a Christmas present a couple years ago. She used the machine once to test it, after it sat unopened in the box for almost a year. Finally, she has stickers, lots of them.

So Saturday, we were in Hobby-Lobby buying some items to support a theme at an upcoming work-related conference. During our shopping, some obviously non-work related stickers ended up in the cart.

Yvette mom’s and I tried to convince Yvette not to buy the stickers and that she had enough at home, but it was a losing argument.

So, thinking Yvette had spent A LOT of money supporting a craft room that she doesn’t use, I fired up Quicken to report back on how much she had spent at Hobby-Lobby and Michaels over the past two years. To my disappointment, it totaled just a little over $300 or under $13 a month. I was sure it was going be in the thousands, if not tens of thousands. It just seemed like she bought a lot.

So then I took a look back and found that I spent almost $130 to maintain this blog, which even my mother admits she doesn’t read.

So she can have her craft room, where she doesn’t do crafts, and I can keep my blog, which seems that only you and Yvette read.