Erin? Is awesome.

Someone else's house I could do. But not my parents', not my childhood home.

I offered a friend of my mom's to help while she does that this weekend at her mom's place up here.

Thankfully my mom declutters all of the time and just asks before she gets rid of anything I might want. If she's really ready for it to go and I want it, it comes to me. Or she just notes not to purge it and keeps it. But with her asking now when it's not all emotional, I can support her in getting rid of a lot of the things. She's great about asking though because I apparently surprise her in what I have a sentimental spot for (a broken perfume jar that still faintly smells of something mysterious and mom) and what I don't (a lot of jewelry that I think needs to go to cousins or something if it was family-related).

I maintain there's a time limit on how long random objects retain their discrete object-hood when resting on a horizontal surface. That limit's expiration results in the object becoming part of the horizontal surface and no longer visible as a separate object.

So damn true. This is when I am glad to be forced into cleaning ALL of the things. Because I just don't notice.

I keep thinking that I need to just start cleaning and culling as if I were moving again.

and get rid of the CD with the nudie pictures.

Oooooooooh. They're on a cd with other things. Okay. I was honestly boggled that he'd pulled out actual pictures and then went through them. Much clearer now.

after I click "post message" I'm sure I'll forget about it. Again.

Calli! There's a DVD on your table!

Calli! There's a DVD on your table!

OMG! You're right--it's right there.

You know, I should really . . .

Hey, a squirrel!

Shiny turtles!

It's the same with packaging that needs to be thrown out. Dammit, I might have just given myself a project for the weekend.

What packaging? I AM IGNORING THE COMPUTER BOXES IN THE KITCHEN. THERE ARE NO COMPUTER BOXES IN THE KITCHEN.

Has anyone had any luck in getting a Significant Other to give up his clutter?

Err... somewhat. It's not as bad as it was, and there appears to be steady progress. There's been years between admission of useless clutter and noticeable progress. I'll plead the fifth on methods, though.

Erin, you are my official Writer Of Difficult Things To Say Whilst Not Wanting To Be Hurtful Yet Make My Point Clear.

and get rid of the CD with the nudie pictures.

Oooooooooh. They're on a cd with other things. Okay. I was honestly boggled that he'd pulled out actual pictures and then went through them. Much clearer now.

Yeah, sorry. I really was full of distress about it last night, and not as clear with my explanation as I'd like. And Microsoft's Picture Viewer (I think that's what he was using; I'm so Mac-centric that I don't actually know) shows thumbnails instead of just a blank folder icon with the name of the folder, so once the CD was in, there they were.

What I also didn't share last night because I was too focused on the THROW THOSE AWAY thing was that I *also* got to see pictures of the black-and-tan coonhound as a puppy, and he was lethally cute. Oh my god.

Once when we moved there was a box that hadn't been opened since a move previous. We both agreed to leave it on the curb.

When it comes to sexy pictures of exes I think the polite thing to do would be to send them to your ex.

Would you be upset if your lover had a picture of theirself and an ex fully clothed posing with a naked porn star?

When it comes to sexy pictures of exes I think the polite thing to do would be to send them to your ex.

There's a very strong possibility she'll be at the visitation Monday night. So I guess we could bring the CDs to the funeral home....

I'm not sure I would want to be handed naked pictures of myself at a funeral home. Even if they're on a disc... it would depend on what kind of relationship I had with the person who was giving them to me.