Intro
I entered middle age a few years ago...okay, a little more than a few. Our daughters are 28 and 26. After they left, I cautiously redecorated their bedrooms. I did the usual, donated "Lucky" brand jeans (left from 3rd grade) and stuffed animals to a local thrift store. Next, I threw away countless plastic bags from "The Gap" and other retailers. Some of them included various amounts of change, which of course I took as my housekeeping fee. Every $6.40 helps!
I slowly bought new furniture items that I liked - a futon and frame, small roll-top desk, area rugs and lamps. One room was starting to resemble my new "office" which would double as a guest room when necessary. One morning as I was getting ready to leave for work, I heard (and felt) a very large boom-crash. I cautiously walked upstairs to find the dust clearing and about half of the ceiling of my new room on the floor. Ah, the joys of owning an antique house...
#&@$% catalogs!
The recycle truck driver is probably wondering what's up at our house. For the past few weeks, my curbside container has been overflowing. I have been getting rid of catalogs at an alarming rate. Normally our bin contains 2 - 4 steel cans, junk mail, a few crushed boxes, 7 newspapers and 8 - 15 catalogs. Yes that many catalogs in a week's time. Due to some weird brain twist, I feel I should look through all of these catalogs - fortunately, I don't. The ones I do scan, I fold the corners of pages down, but rarely make a purchase. I have requested that the companies stop sending them, because I'd like to save the trees in the first place instead of having them hauled off with the rest of the recyclables! I actually have been receiving fewer since I asked them to stop. With my massive clean-up effort, I have been letting go of ALL of them, including the stacks that I thought I might someday order from. I also have been able to part with many corrugated boxes in the process.
Question: Should I leave this guy some Christmas cookies for all of the extra work I'm causing him? I am guessing no, due to the fact that he has kind of a messy job and wears those big heavy leather gloves. Must be difficult to do anything that requires fine motor skills. For now, I'll just continue to sort my junk so that at least all of the catalogs are together.
Question: Should I leave this guy some Christmas cookies for all of the extra work I'm causing him? I am guessing no, due to the fact that he has kind of a messy job and wears those big heavy leather gloves. Must be difficult to do anything that requires fine motor skills. For now, I'll just continue to sort my junk so that at least all of the catalogs are together.
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