I put a tv stand up on Freecycle and last night someone said they'd be by for it by 2 pm today. It's now 3:44. The tv stand is still in my living room. Le sigh.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Feb 22, 2009 10:45:09 am PST #7418 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Feb 22, 2009 10:49:37 am PST #7419 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I finally brought a coffee table I had down to the consignment store on the corner. I've been following its progress. It started out at $160, and now it's marked down to $110.
meara - Feb 22, 2009 11:04:16 am PST #7420 of 30000
...I would kill your boyfriend, Teppy. Seriously, OMG, WTFBBQ. Could not deal.
Of course, I am also currently not speaking to my girl (since about 11:30 last night). Though I did respond to her barrage of texts, calls, and a couple IMs, with a few texts ranging from "Go to hell" to the slightly more subdued "I am not responding right now because I am mad, and will not have anything productive to say. I will speak to you sometime later". I am mostly not furious anymore, and am instead just disgusted and annoyed and OVER IT. Sigh.
I tend to keep what *I* think of as a lot of random junk, in case it might be useful someday (random ribbons, glue, sticky stuff)...but then, it's all in nice boxes and stuff, and actually has been useful. And is probably only clutter to people who keep their houses zen-like.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 22, 2009 11:08:45 am PST #7421 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm a bit of a pack rat, but fortunately the stress and general fed-upness of moving overpowers my hoardng tendencies. My art and photographs never get thrown away, and I'm reluctant to cull books down in any significant manner. But pretty much everything else that's not expensive furniture is subject to a "Fuck it! I can live without it at the new place!" reaction once I've spent enough hours putting stuff in boxes. The trash dumpster at my last apartment looked like a tornado had touched down the weekend I left.
Steph L. - Feb 22, 2009 11:10:12 am PST #7422 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
...I would kill your boyfriend, Teppy. Seriously, OMG, WTFBBQ. Could not deal.
I try to not even look at the spare bedroom (which is not easy in a 900-square-foot house, but I have amazing powers of denial).
The trash dumpster at my last apartment looked like a tornado had touched down the weekend I left.
Ha! When I moved (after 7 years at my apt. complex), the trash dumpsters were COMICAL. Plus there was an unspoken tradition of putting usable items that you were willing to give away -- no broken crap -- in the building's laundry room. I put a tiny TV, old but working microwave, TV cart, many large planters, and some other stuff down there. I should have put more down there.
Urg. I need to continue proofreading and get off the computer for a while. Stupid need to earn a paycheck!
beekaytee - Feb 22, 2009 11:12:29 am PST #7423 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Tep, is is possible to arrange the offce furniture to serve as a faux dressing room? Drawers are drawers and tall file cabinets can have clothes rods strung between them. The Boy is handy, isn't he? It could be a project!
Steph L. - Feb 22, 2009 11:15:43 am PST #7424 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tep, is is possible to arrange the offce furniture to serve as a faux dressing room? Drawers are drawers and tall file cabinets can have clothes rods strung between them.
That was actually part of the plan -- a large, wide cabinet was going to be shoe/boot storage, and then other clothes could go in the other drawers, etc. The problem is getting a machete and hacking our way (okay, metaphorically) into the back of the room. Frankly, a few things must get ditched. It's just a square-footage issue. But if that ever happened, it would be much easier to arrange.
The Boy is handy, isn't he? It could be a project!
Ah, projects + ADD = glacial progress. Hoarding + ADD = OMFG.
bon bon - Feb 22, 2009 11:16:38 am PST #7425 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Clutter stresses me out. Throwing things out of my life is like therapy.
sarameg - Feb 22, 2009 11:25:02 am PST #7426 of 30000
I've gotten good about culling the stuff that comes in and doesn't need to stay. It's just the stuff that's already HERE that makes me crazy. It's stuff that I used to go through every couple of years, but there was a run of years of not dealing early on and....And then there is stuff I want to use but don't have a place for yet (handmade quilt that will go somewhere the cats can't get to, but is not possible in this apartment.) .
Jesse - Feb 22, 2009 11:28:00 am PST #7427 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have too much crap for sure. And the wrong storage pieces. Meh.
I will say, my building is great for getting rid of stuff - people often put stuff in the lobby, and people take most of it like immediately. I mean, I put a mostly-broken TV/VCR down there, and it was gone in a couple of hours.