Item 3: a garment bag

Those of you who entered the workforce within the last 5-10 years may never have a need for a bag such as this.  But back in the dark ages when we traveled for work, we had to wear suits, blouses, pantyhose and nice shoes etc.  This type of bag, known as a garment bag, was used to transport our business attire and keep it (mostly) wrinkle-free.  This is a lovely blue bag from the Lands End Lighthouse collection.  It has only been used a dozen times at most.  While I still visit customers, my trips are local and my customers are informal so I no longer need to wear suits and no longer need to take along clothing when I visit them.   Anyone need a garment bag?

PS:  check out all of the stuff in the background of photo number one.  There's an exercise ball that may find it's way onto this list by the end of 100 days.  There's also a glimpse of our gift wrapping center (behind the two baby gates...another story).  The wrapping center is an old dresser full of ribbon, bows, tissue paper, wrapping paper and boxes.  As an aside:  while we occasionally buy wrapping paper, we tend to carefully unwrap gifts and keep the paper to be used multiple times.  We have some paper that is 20 years old.  We can prove it by going back through old Christmas photos to locate the year the paper first appeared.  I know:  we're odd.  But hey someone has to save the world.  Haha! 

I continue to digress here but I understand they now include "wrapping rooms" in houses (according to a recent Wall Street Journal article that Dave mentioned to me).  Two questions:  how much wrapping paper etc do people own and how many gifts are they buying if they feel a need to dedicate a room to the undertaking?  Good grief.  Or maybe I should say thank you.  Thank you for buying into the consumer mentality.  I'm doing the reverse.  Hence the 100 in 100 idea.