By Glenn Dromgoole

I got another tumbler for my birthday. That makes at least five or six competing for space on a crowded shelf in the kitchen. 

And how many of those do I actually use? Not more than one at a time.

Why, I wonder, is there an overpopulation of tumblers? I think it’s because they make a very nice gift – for the giver. The recipient, however, probably doesn’t need another one.

I suppose you could say the same thing about shirts, or socks, or pretty much anything else. Most of us have more of nearly everything than we actually need.

Yet, we keep having birthdays (thank you very much) and Christmases, and what do you give someone who has everything?

Evidently, a tumbler.

Or maybe a book? I can always fit another one of those on the shelf. Might even get around to reading it.

Glenn Dromgoole and his wife Carol sell books, gourmet gift baskets and (yes) tumblers and other stuff at Texas Star Trading Company in downtown Abilene.