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Project Sane House: Some Success
Well, I managed to get the Man started on his closet yesterday, with the request that he get together anything that needs to go to the Salvation Army by Wednesday.
He did start going through stuff, but he wants to hang onto stuff. Take the camera tripod. As far as I can recall, the last time he used it was about 1990, for the purpose of hanging up a toy for our cats to play with!. I can't EVER remember him using it with a camera.
Does he want to get rid of it? No? Will he? If I have anything to say about it, he will pack it up, along with a lot of other stuff he hasn't used in years and years. But there is a LOT of stuff in that closet--it's amazing how much he's keeping in such a small space. If Jimmy Hoffa's body tumbles out, or that green sport shirt my dad lost in 1960 something, I wouldn't be surprised!
Meanwhile I called the Salvation Army this morning and arranged a pickup--tomorrow--for the cedar chest in our bedroom. It is going to be a job moving it downstairs and out the door--it's heavy. And I hate to get rid of it. It's a nice piece and I've had it for almost 20 years--ever since I moved in with the Man, in fact.
But it's not useful. It's too low. It gets covered with stuff. So tomorrow I intend to get 2 small Ikea chests of drawers. They are nowhere as esthetically pleasing as my cedar chest, but they will fit in the same space under the window. I will get a place to store and easily access all the shirts, t-shirts and sweaters that currently have a good storage place, and are in 3 different places in two different rooms. The cats will be able to sit on top of the chests--which will be clear of all the junk now gathered there--and look out of the windows.
Above all, I will wake up in the morning and see that much less clutter in what is supposed to be our refuge from the world!
Progress, slowly but surely. But I could really use that team from "Clean House" to persuade the Man he should get rid of that tripod.............................
