I ONCE MET A KNITTER WHO, when she ran out of yarn money, made a bold choice: Flat out of yarn, she had taken her birth-control money for that month and bought the yarn she needed instead.
I was stunned. Being a woman (and a mother) of some experience, I pointed out to her that this choice seemed … risky. As a general rule, the consequences of skimping on birth control are cute but expensive. I’ve got three teenagers who have ended up being pretty hard on the yarn budget.
She laughed then, and stated the simple truth. She and her husband weren’t going to need birth control that month. She had looked through her life for what she could do without for thirty days … and it wasn’t yarn.