Devonviolet Acres

[Bruce]

When we moved the new freezer into the spare bedroom, he boxed up most of what should have gone on the loft in the workshop, and carted it out there.

Or maybe it REALLY needs to be carted to Goodwill or the dump? WILL it ever be used?

Every once in a while, I would get a wild hair, and we would put everything away.

Sadly when DW gets a hair it is to clean something like a small spot on the wall or the floor. The only time she cleans the crap off the dining table is when we are going to have someone over to eat with us. I told her mother that she and my FIL should come over every Sunday. Not practical but that table would be ALMOST reasonable at least 2 days a week.

 

[Bruce]

I keep telling Teresa I'm going to make a bunch of signs that says "This is not a table" to put on all of those things I have a hard time getting into because she has covered them up.

I would be getting the silent treatment if I said that let alone did it.

 

[Mike CHS]

I would be getting the silent treatment if I said that let alone did it.

I even showed her the post.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah well you have already TOLD her you were telling her you were going to make the signs, no surprise for her. Bet she doesn't change her ways though, not if she is like my DW.

 

[babsbag]

Yep, I am a pilot but only because I get tired of trying to find a place to store anything. The office is virtually useless since I can't walk through it anymore and DH won't let me discard any of his treasures so the mail and the bill paying got moved to the living room, as did the stapler. The multi meter was from testing the chicken coop auto door motor and has been put away. Things usually find their way back to their origin but the paper trail never seems to disappear.

 

[Baymule]

My name is Baymule and I am a self admitted a Pile-It. My husband "straightens" up and piles the piles that I know what's in them, into a bigger pile somewhere else. Things disappear into uber-piles and never see the light of day again. It drives me crazy for him to move my piles. My piles drive him crazy. But we put up with each other's particular brand of crazy.

 

[babsbag]

I pile my husbands "stuff" but he never moves the pile or looks at the pile. When does a person decide that they don't need what is in the pile and get rid of it? Around here...never. If he would sort his piles and discard accordingly we would have a lot less clutter.

 

[Bruce]

EXACTLY @babsbag !!!!!!! DW doesn't EVER decide to get rid of the piles, other than when we have to clean up for people coming for dinner. Then some of the old catalogs might hit the recycle bin. It isn't like we need them, lots of them send a new one every month.

I had to clean out the prior house. I found, ALL OVER THE PLACE including many places in the basement, envelopes with EVERY SINGLE credit card receipt we EVER got, organized by month. That was 25 YEARS of receipts. And every utility bill, every check register, every bank statement, every (you name it).

 

[Mike CHS]

But if she ever needed to go back and find something, it was there.

 

[Bruce]

That has NEVER happened *. And what value is there in a grocery store receipt after the credit card statement is reconciled?? Yeah, keep the ones for things that are tax related, have warranties, might be returned (until it is past the return date), capital improvements to the house, etc.

* And never will, the old stuff has been recycled, unless it had account numbers on it, then it went in the woodstove.