Jan
4
2011
Again The Same Fight
Author: siggyWe have the same fight over and over: it is about things. I want less to enter the house. She is, again, active on “Free Cycle”, a web site where people give things away. The theory is for less to end up in land fills.
Yesterday, she came home with a scanner and some other things we did not need. It does me no good to tell her I do not want that item. She gets seduced by things. She even admits that.
I have been after her to gather documentation for her deceased husband’s pension. (She is the beneficiary.) The documents she needs are probably in our “junk room.”
I could not believe it among some books piled in one corner of the house falls out her first marriage certificate–over thirty years old the document was. It was in tatters to give you some idea of the disorder in this house.
A friend months ago came over and made some order out of our “junk” room. Unfortunately after that she kept putting more stuff in there.
Actually it was me. She kept getting more things and I did not want to “junk” up the living room. I had to put the stuff somewhere.
And it is true as she said the junk room is no longer neat and it is hard again to walk in that room. There is so much stuff in there. She does not want to search for her documents until the room is neater and she could walk around in it.
All this despite the fact the new stuff (since the room was straightened out) was obtained by her. There is old computers (even ones that run on DOS), extra printers, broken down stereo equipment, books etc.
And it is true I am not as neat as her but she is the pack rat and stuff keeps entering our house whether or not we need them and all I want to do is tear out my hair. And we periodically keep having these fights. About things.
