I am having a fabulous week. I’m sleeping in shamefully late and then tackling various projects. They are the same projects as at the end of every year: cleaning out cabinets and closets. And I really mean it this time. I’m not just shuffling piles between rooms, I have a concerted campaign to get stuff out of my little empire and either into the trash or to people who might like or benefit from it.
Just when I thought I had a grip on all the clutter, I started these projects. And I just have mountains of stuff. [Please refer to George Carlin’s routine on stuff -- that says it all.]
Things I discovered I have in strangely multiple quantities:
-- Colored pencils
-- Pencil sharpeners
-- Post-It Notes
-- Index cards
-- Manila folders
-- Hanging folders [sensing an office supply theme?]
-- Rulers – wooden, plastic, clear, you name it, I got 'em
-- Boxes upon boxes of cassette tapes, mostly homemade
-- Mini-flashlights
-- Rubbermaid boxes
-- Magazines – I could open a lending library
-- More cords than are humanly possible; I don’t even know what they’re for
-- Random books of matches, many from the Flying Saucer and Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
-- Dozens of articles about home organization
Let’s all savor that last one for a moment. Then it’s back to the sorting and scrapping.
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