Shopping in the Time of Corona

At first I really took the Stay at Home order to heart and thought that not only should I stay at home but that I also had a responsibility to help everyone else stay at home too which meant that I should only shop for essentials. I also thought that we should leave the store as quickly as possible so that meant that even though I went to the drug store to pick up a prescription I should not visit other aisles which meant no browsing for Easter decorations and no chocolate Easter bunnies.

Food shopping was challenging since we hadn’t gone on weekly shopping trips for years and pretty much shopped daily for whatever we needed. But our younger daughter said we weren’t doing social distancing correctly so my husband has been really trying to consolidate his food shopping trips.

While others ramped up their online and pick up purchases to help the economy, I embraced a make do philosophy. When I started crafting I looked to see what I could make from the materials I already had. And I framed my first embroidery piece in a frame I already had. But then I didn’t have the right frame for my second piece and I needed mats for the next two pieces so I decided I could order some items online. Michael’s had opened for in person shopping by the time I started my first pulp cover cross stitch and I didn’t have all the thread colors I wanted for that so I decided shopping there was okay.

Vacation posed another shopping challenge. I already wrote about how I went to the Dollar Store to buy suitcase presents but what about actual vacation shopping. Popping in and out of little stores is always a highlight of vacations but this year while the stores were open they are very small and the streets were crowded, so we didn’t shop and I didn’t get anything new for my collections!

I will have something to share soon though because we did just make a series of online purchases.