You know what I can’t get enough of looking at but never ever buy? Address labels. I kid you not.

You know how you get those flyers in the mail with all kinds of check designs, and address labels, and checkbooks? Yeah, I will pore over those with agonizing detail…. and then not order any of them. I have no idea why this is. I didn’t have a book of checks with my correct name on it for about 2 1/2 years after I got married. And then? I got as far as picking out the address labels, and decided that I might as well just hand write my name on all of the 3 envelopes that I send out every year.

However, a good friend of mine taught me a trick several years ago, and this is a good reason to actually pick out some good designs- every time she lent out a book that she wanted back? She’d stick address labels inside the cover of the book. Brilliant! And now I have a stack of more than a dozen books to lend to a friend, and I’ve got to get to ordering!