Nov
13
2010
The Clutter Just Grows and All I Can Do Is Shake My Head
Author: siggyAbout a year ago my other had discovered “Freecycle”. It is a web site–worldwide–whose goal is things should not end up in landfills. People give things away they don’t want in their house any longer.
That is admirable but for everything that left out house three things came in. Our house is bursting with things.
The second time she got involved with “Freecycle” I felt more hopeful that ratio would change: she got rid of a stove (we ordered a new one), some bookcases and miscellaneous items.
Then she elicited my help on the guise of, “Do you want to keep me company?” Sometimes she does not tell me what she is picking up. Someone was giving away boxes of medical legal books.
Had I not been with her, she would have had to make multiple trips from the second floor to put them in the back of our SUV. She has a bad back.
She took these books despite the fact we have no extra book case room. A previous lawyer had owned these books and what she was going to do with these books was beyond me.
The same trip she told me she was going to pick up some tile. I envisioned a small box of tiles. Wrong! It was a big box full of whole and broken tiles on a dolly.
The box would have broken if you were foolhardy to attempt to lift it. We had to transfer them into smaller boxes. She had some kind of idea she wanted to do mosaics. All I could do was shake my head.
The same day she picked up a Sony double cassette and a Sony 50 CD deck despite the fact we had at least two completely working cassette decks. It made no difference I told her I did not want either.
I just have to resign myself that our house is going to be full of junk and bursting from the seams. And there is nothing I can do to stop it. My war on the clutter is an unending battle that I will never win and occasionally have pockets of success.
