Vacation time is supposed to be for rest and relaxation right? A way to recharge the batteries if you will. That was my perception of a vacation until a few days ago. BUSY AS HELL is a better way to describe a vacation. Between going through closets, donating old items, throwing away stuff, and doing alot of crap around the house.. I’m starting to miss work! Ok I wont go that far.. While going through crap in the closets of the house, only one thought came to mind. How the hell can 3 people acquire so much CRAP?!?! *shakes head*
Its not just random crap, NOOOOOOO its the crap that you have packed up in a closet and forgot it was there, until the day that you decide to unleash the closets fury! Then you have to spend half your time looking at the crap, thinking back to the day when you bought the crap, and then your left wondering why do I have this crap packed up in the closet? This is useful crap that I could bring back out and allow it to rejoin the crap I already have cluttering the living environment! Then you have the crap that you have bought your significant other that must be gushed over, taking even more time away from your original task!
You know finding long lost treasures in the closets from hell is all great and fine, but at the end of the day I found myself asking this one simple question. We have lived without this crap for 5 years, do we really need to keep it? I am happy to report some good came from this project, aside form being able to see the floor in the closet. Several bags of clothes, shoes, books, toys, and stuffed animals have been donated to people that can really use them.
Not all the vacation time has been used for the mile long *to do list*, I took yesterday off to watch football and reacquaint myself with my Xbox 360. Oh how I missed you old friend!!
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1 Chris from Racine // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I feel your pain – I spend sooo much time going through stuff that I end up in a different world. I now have a friend who demands that she is with me whenever I clean the closets – she don’t allow no crap!!
2 Ick // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Well there was alot of asking, do we really need to keep this? going on the other night. Naturally if I asked the question, the answer was almost always yes we must keep that *sigh*
3 liverdamage // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I cleaned out the garage so I know what you’re going through. I threw away a bunch of stuff out for bulk trash…. incoming rant
I fucking hate salvagers… the economy sucks, its free money, its recycling/reusing, I’m just throwing it away anyways, etc; I GET IT. So I make a nice pile of stuff on the dog walk; make sure everything is grounded so the wind won’t blow shit away; sort through all the stuff to even make it easier for the salvagers to find what they’re looking for… stuff with metal over here, cloth over there, empty boxes and packages here, lawn clippings there, electronics pile here, etc.
The fuckers tore through everything. And when I say fuckers, I am referring to 30 of them over the course of A DAY AND A HALF!!! Tearing through everything and not even putting the shit back together… nope, just making my front yard look like ass. There were fucking LABELS on the cloth materials… nope, time to take it all out of the bag and leave the shit unbagged and flying around looking like ass. I mean, you could have looked into the bag and left the shit there.
The shit needs to be out sunday afternoon, and the trash peeps usually don’t come until Thursday. I’d clean it up, but the next salvage crew would just fuck it up again. I’ll end up with about 100 separate salvage crews tearing up my lawn over that time… fuck them… fuck them all.
4 Liverdamage // Jan 19, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Update… the fuckers were not only nice enough to make my shit look even worse… they added 2 empty foedies (40 oz malt liquor) to my lawn.
A very special ‘fuck you’ to those salvagers… hopefully their drunk driving, littering in my lawn, dumb assholes wreck into a telephone pole.
Yeah, I’m bitter
5 Kelly // Jan 20, 2009 at 3:24 am
You find my wireless camera yet, Ick?!
Kellys last blog post..A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents (a personal opinion)
6 Steve // Jan 20, 2009 at 11:43 am
Now that was funny.
7 lajitas // Jan 20, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I’m thoroughly shocked that you didn’t spend a few days in Lance’s World!! Guess the old ticker couldn’t take it!!
8 frank // Jan 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm
9 Ick // Jan 21, 2009 at 11:28 pm
@ Steve,
It kinda reminded me of going to *she who shall not be named* storage unit!
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