Mar
15
2013
I don’t know why having order of your possessions is so important. And of course your mate has a different idea what that means. We still have several hundred cassettes I don’t want or am not too interested in. I am happy they are hidden from sight in the garage. My wife considers them still valuable. To be fair to her we have gotten rid of some but cassettes are really dinosaurs. Almost no one wants them any longer. I have to admit I still use my cassette deck. Most of the time to play collections of music I put together. Someone I know has all his music stored somewhere on a hard drive. And he is not the only one. LP’s are also dinosaurs. They stopped making them in 1987 although vinyl is making a comeback. I still have, maybe, two thousand stored in my living room. As neatly and unobtrusively as I can.
Our living room has become neater. There used to be piles of papers and our books on the bookcases were doubled up–no longer so I don’t want to complain too much about this room. We have made progress in making it neater. Every couple’s idea of order is different. Some houses are less cluttered and some even look so clean you can eat off the floor. Cleanliness and order are two different discussions. They are not exactly the same thing. And cleanliness is, also, another issue you have to work out between couples. As order, usually each partner has a different idea what is acceptable. Somehow you have to find the middle ground.
