Tony Brewer

One of my best friends, Jack, is a huge sports fan. He has a great “man’s room” in his house – with a big screen television, a wet bar, and great reclining seats for us to relax in when we go over. He has a lot of sports trophies lining the walls – he played a lot of sports in high school and college, and he loves to show them off!

It seems that almost every time I talk to him, he is excitedly bragging to me about how he has scored some great tickets to one game or another and he is always inviting Teri and I to join him and his wife Kate to go to the games with them.  I never know when he is going to score great Yankee Stadium Tickets, or Fenway Park Tickets, or even Wrigley Field Tickets.  He sure seems to know how and when to get great deals on them all!  I think it’s great to love sports, and I think that he’s lucky to find such great deals all of the time!

I don’t know how or why, but it seems that every time I turn around, someone is giving me a canvas tote bag! Don’t get me wrong, I LIKE canvas tote bags, but honestly, just how many canvas tote bags does one person need?

I have about four different sized LL Bean canvas tote bags with zippers (I love the ones with zippers) and I DO use them from time to time. I have about five canvas tote bags I bought years ago to use to haul my groceries in. I have a closet that has about 20 unused tote bags, all brand new and plain, that someone gave me a few years ago, thinking I would paint them with a pretty design and either give them away or sell them.

And just about every time I go to some kind of “function” I am given a new tote bag with some company’s logo and slogan on it. For gift giving occassions, people give me assorted goodies in a canvas tote bag. I like them all, but I think I have a lifetime supply of tote bags! So if you are reading this and are wondering what to give me for my approaching birthday, let me give you a hint – NOT a tote bag!