Things I did not buy.

A pink electric can opener; a programmable slow cooker; a pair of perfectly tailored Bermuda shorts; a trip to Bermuda, with or without shorts; exactly the right pair of chinos; foundation undergarments made of space-age fabrics; whalebone corset; a pair of extremely sharp scissors; ipad, kindle, perhaps a nook; a last word cocktail; praise; silence; eyelet top; frye boots in coral or lime or even coral-and-lime; roof repairs; six bags of black mulch; partridge (already have the pear tree).