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Christi Diggs
on May 23 2013 - 06:00 AM
A drop of spin, a cup of deception and tsp. politics=Apathy
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Lindsay Metcalf
on May 22 2013 - 06:00 AM
When that tornado siren sounds, I'm in the basement
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mara williams
on May 21 2013 - 06:00 AM
Summer break has this mom on a house upkeep war path.
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First order of business: Happy birthday to my beloved sister. She woulda been 36, I think.
I will have a tasty adult drink in her honor when I get home from work. How's heaven treatin' ya, sister?
OK, so. I had the day off Wednesday.
Of course I slept in a little (10 a.m.) then got up and figured I should do something productive.
I roamed around the house, coffee in hand, and peered into our little nook off the living room we dub the "computer room."
It looked a little unorganized.
I could have went back upstairs, got under the covers and watched TV until it was time to pick Bo up from school. Tempting, yes, but I really needed to set up that new $19 printer I bought on Black Friday.
There was a walking path to the computer, but everywhere else laid stacks of old papers, books, grade-school artwork, expired coupons, trash, and random CDs.
I started off by organizing the bookshelves.
The main bookshelf housed photo albums that had been shoved back into place not-so-nicely. I rearranged those and spent about two hours flipping through old pics.
Ugh. Well, at least now I'm motivated once again to hit the gym.
Next up, the plastic bill organizer from our first house. There was a bunch of paperwork in there from when we bought our first house. We didn't need that anymore, right?
Recycled.
Then I went through a stack of appliance manuals. Am I the only one who keeps these?
I've actually used a few of them. Luke fixed our washer once and I dug out the oven manual to figure out how to self-clean the thing without screwing it up.
But, why was I keeping a manual from a 1990-something Remington Ladies electric razor?
Hmmm, it says "Limited Lifetime Warranty."
I tossed that thing into the trash years ago.
Recycled.
Does anything really have a "Lifetime Warranty?"
After buying Bo's school backpack this year I noticed the price tag had a large "Limited Lifetime Warranty" on it.
Oh really? I did what any other OCD mom would do.
I put the receipt and "Limited Lifetime Warranty" tag into a file organizer in the "computer room."
I wonder how long it'll take before I throw the backpack away because of a broken zipper and forget that just maybe I could have sent it away for a new one.
On one of the bookshelves I noticed about half a dozen pregnancy and birthing books.
Recycled to the nearest public library.
For some reason I can't bring myself to throw away Bo's artwork and school papers that he brings home daily.
I should probably just keep the really good ones and recycle the others, but I feel so bad about throwing his work away.
I drove up to Michael's and bought a memory box. Now at least the stack of stickman figures drawn on recycled scrap paper can look pretty and out of sight in a nicely decorated box on the shelf.
What am I going to do with all these CDs?
There is no way I'm getting rid of Alanis Morissette. Does the public library also accept donated music CDs?
At around 10 p.m. I had two large grocery paper sacks filled with papers I intended to recycle. Since some of the stuff contained personal information such as old mortgage papers, I asked Luke if we could burn a fire in the back.
I never knew paper burned so slow.
After a shower and a nice glass of iced tea I finally revisited my bed and watched episodes of Duck Dynasty, American Pickers, Chelsea Handler and Pawn Stars.
I felt at peace knowing that my day off was productive and de-cluttering.
What sort of paperwork do you keep? Things have become so digitalized now that owner's manuals will soon need to be downloaded and stored on our home computers instead of in boxes.
Wait, doesn't that happen already?
I totally kept the paperwork from the promise ring Luke bought me 15 years ago.
Hey, you never know...
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