 September
Buzz
Ok,
you have all heard me talk about
my never-ending “company” and
how great it is to open your home
to visitors; well, maybe I talk
too much. I recently welcomed my
adult daughter home, along with
her significant other, as they
just moved back east from California.
We are overwhelmed with joy to
have her back, after she had been
away for several years. Hmmm, but
when two adults leave an apartment
they are bound to have some “baggage ” ,
and not just the psychological
kind. I’m talking STUFF.
Here we are trying to reduce what
we bring in to our house and pare
down all the “stuff” we
have accumulated over the years.
It’s unbelievable how much
a family can acquire .
Lucky
me, we’re having new siding
put on our house and so I get to
take advantage of the big dumpster
in our driveway. Everyday I fill
it with lots of stuff. I guess
I’m getting a little paranoid
because I watched that new show
on TV called “Hoarders ” – man,
those people can’t throw
anything out. So I’m
all about getting rid of anything
not tied down! As we are cleaning
out our basement it is amazing
the things you find in boxes, that
you put away so long ago, and you
thought for sure you couldn’t
live without it. Why on earth
did we save so many grammar school
papers of my kids? Why would I
want all their spelling tests,
math homework and history papers,
etc? I decided to keep only the
ones with perfect scores (ok, so
I didn’t keep many). It was
fun to read some notes that my
daughter doodled on the side of
her notebooks. “I have a
crush on, can’t name him”.
The best - she often wrote “my
little brother is a pest”. I’m
happy to report that they are very
close now and terrific friends,
so I’m going to toss those
notes.
Once
you get on a roll it can be very
time consuming because you start
looking at everything and then
remembering what I used this for,
or where
we were when we flew those kites.
Time has gone by so fast. All these
memories come flooding back. But
don’t get me wrong, I
actually can toss things out in
a blink of an eye. My husband,
on the other hand, wants to look
at everything and insists on keeping
boxes and boxes of all those electronic
cables, because he may need them
one day. Of course I say sure honey
and then, whoops, out go the cables. Yesterday
I got told to back off from the
clean-up, as I was going too fast
and throwing too much out. Well,
that’s one way of getting
out of a chore.
Peggy Burns
Queen Bee
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