So, I’m very nearly done packing. The movers are coming tomorrow morning, so all is well. I think I have one more trip to make in the car (with stuff that’s easier to move myself than to pack properly).
As many of you know, Kat and I have some… tension surrounding the amount of stuff we have in the house. I think I’m fighting a belief that if it’s in a box, it doesn’t count as clutter.
I knew packing was going to pour salt on that wound. I must say, it wasn’t as bad as I thought. But, I did find:
- Bags of bags. Probably a half dozen of various kinds: gym bags, shoulderbags, gift bags, clothes-store bags. In all cases, a bag of type X seems to contain many other bags of type X.
- Three Bon Jovi tapes. We don’t own a tape player.
- Two breakfast-in-bed trays, which can have photos put in the surface. So, it’s like eating off a multi-opening picture frame. Ain’t nobody getting breakfast in bed as long as these are in the house.
- A DVD player that I had forgotten about. It’s for Kat’s mother, but we hadn’t given it to her because it’s dirty. I offered to get the lens cleaner out… no … it’s just dusty.
- More craft stuff and picture frames than I knew about.
Update: I just counted. 72 boxes.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Did you ever figure out what ‘notions’ were?
June 6th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
I opened the box. They seem to be little pieces of lace and crap.
But, they were in a box. Therefore not clutter.
June 7th, 2006 at 5:33 am
YOU SUCK EGGS! It’s not clutter! I admit, the bags of bags may have been a little overboard. However, now that I remember, the DVD player needs both a wipe and in internal clean. The craft stuff you see is only a small fraction of what I used to have. AND, I haven’t bought anything else since we moved to the Pender place. I think I was doing very well. The Bon Jovi tapes can go. =:(
June 7th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Aww, poor Kat. Greg, if your checklist is inclusive of all the extraneous things around your house then that’s not bad. If you ever looked around my house you would break down and cry; my mom’s boyfriend/husband is the king of pack-rats; heaven forbid something ever get thrown away… what if someday 10 years from now he NEEDS it?
Although, this sentence made me lol: “Ain’t nobody getting breakfast in bed as long as these are in the house.”
June 8th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
I wanted to send a package today, and turns out all the boxes at the post office were either too big or too small. Pricey too. Then I remembered that I still had a box I’d kept from when Noah sent me a package a couple months ago. Glories of glories!
Went home to get it, and realised I’D THROWN IT OUT.
If only I’d had pack rat instincts.
Case closed.