Enough

My sister attributes this to Mary Poppins, "Enough is as good as a feast."

As a retailer in weird economic times, several questions have recurred in my thinking:

- what is essential?
- what is enough?
- when does more become a problem?
- how do you know when to change something?

All the other adages I've talked about (if it ain't broke, don't fix it; begun is half done; etc.) don't answer these questions sufficiently.

How do we know anything? I used to have a daughter-in-law who worried for recreation. She never could tell if her worries were real or imagined. I finally told her, "If the worry is real, you won't have to ask."

I think a variation of my answer works for the above questions. When I get to the essential and enough, I won't have to ask. When more becomes a problem, I will know it, as I will know when it is time to change something.

Shopkeeping by intuition isn't a popular subject in the literature, but it's how we have done it so far, and being as it's the horse we rode in on, I suppose we'll use the same vehicle for the tour.