tolerating fabrics

Today I learned that I like new clothes, and it doesn't matter if the new clothes are $6 worth of socks from Target. They're generally far enough from my nose that I don't even have to decontaminate them too carefully.

I also learned that since I went away for a month (I never got around to mentioning that, but that's where the outlet shopping came in), I seem to tolerate the stuff I contaminated with smoke in the dryer last year. Apparently a year is about long enough to forget about something such that when you get it back, it seems new, despite various holes and tears and such. It's a quilt. Those are allowed to look well-loved, right?