Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Greetings from a former Pack Rat....

Yeah, that's right....I WAS a pack rat. Just as soon as I finish going through the 110 boxes and plastic bags in our garage - I'm tossing half the contents of our house. I mean really, who is going to want: 1. the top to our wedding cake. Seriously. 2. My scrapbook from high school... 3. Misc holiday decorations (read: cheesy) in the hall closet. We live on a dead-end road. Why decorate??? 4. a ton of good knitting yarn (ok, so that won't be so hard to get rid of...) 5. four filing cabinets full of genealogical research 6. 2 bookshelves full of genealogical research (don't worry, Mom, will save the good stuff, but need to toss the "what if crap"! 7. My wedding dress. Yep, I sewed it and was quite proud of it. But it's time to say goodby...same with a few long dresses from high school. 8. Um, I'm trying to come up with 10 things....I did pretty well keeping my clothes and shoes under control.... Ok, give me a few days, perhaps I can round out my list of ten things. I am SO FRIGGIN' tired of packing boxes and boxes of CRAP! I did get the boxes out of the second storage facility today - nothing earthshattering - some bags of clothes that are destined for our church collection and two lawn-leaf bags full of pads, not panty-pads, but the disposable kind you put on the bed(?). Grrrrreat...... Got the 12 boxes of stamps/coins from the conservators today as well. Holy moley -- you should see our garage (Gary would rather you didn't). Can't do a thing with those until I speak with our attorney. Oh~ And found the key to the other safe deposit box in Long Beach! So I have keys now to both of those boxes!!!! And the grand finale for the day (this will just kill you, Jon......). Wrote an estate check for a couple hundred dollars to US Bank to drill the box in Longview - there is no key to be found.....the contents were extremely interesting.....so interesting that....... they were invisible!! The damned thing was EMPTY! Great! What a grand waste of money!!! I just want to set fire to my garage......and I need a good back massage!!!! But not just yet - my year's worth of hay is showing up Saturday morning. Whaaaaaaa!

3 comments:

  1. Four file cabinets of genealogical research? Sheesh, I have only one!! We did dispose of a lot when we moved in 2003 but probably still have 'way too much. Waiting for Haley to get a bigger house so we can give her a lot of her grandparents' stuff. Am still hyper-ventilating about the loss of gen materials!!

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  2. EMPTY?? Ongoing rent being paid on an empty safe deposit box?? Back to our standard sayings: "WHY?" and "THIS IS JUST WRONG!" I'm with you, vowing to make a concerted effort to downsize. I don't even LIKE most of my Christmas decorations!

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  3. We all hang on to way too much stuff, and then have to buy houses bigger than we really need in order to store it all. I don't rent any empty safe deposit boxes, though, so I haven't reached that exalted status ...yet.

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