“Just Because”.    In it, the author talks about how her husband has a habit of bidding on large items on ebay which are “pick-up only” and are located across the country.   So they end up making weekend trips across the country to pick up motor homes, home gyms, motorcycle trailers, etc.  (These are obviously people with more money and several fewer young children than myself.)  The first time her husband bid on a pick-up only item 5 states away, she resisted the urge to thr