One Person’s Junk Is Another Person’s … Junk?
Oh boy … I think I’m in over my head on this De-junking goal of mine. I’ve opened the door a crack and it’s being shoved open by the 41 years of junk behind it. Can you visualize that in your mind … a bulging door with boxes of papers, material, yarn, pictures, bedding, more papers, and then more papers and pictures … and more junk? The things have come to life, I swear! Now I know why they say you should let sleeping dogs lie.
I’m afraid my house is going to tip over if I’m not careful. If I down size the back rooms too fast the front of the house will sink and flip us right over. I’m going to have to be very careful to keep everything balanced. You think I’m kidding don’t you? Well I’m not. It’s a darn good thing we aren’t moving in the next year … and our kids better pray we don’t die and leave it for them to straighten out.
It will be hard to part with some of the old friends … like the heart box that Lynn gave me for Valentine’s the year before we got married … minus the chocolates, of course. Or the greeting cards I have hauled around since greeting cards were invented. Or the posters I made for the Drug & Alcohol classes I taught for Social Services in 1985. It looks to be a very interesting year if I read and reminisce over every scrap of paper I come across.
When I was a working woman it was easy to just put things in boxes to get them out of sight … and now it is like the day of reckoning. There are at least a million or two boxes out of my sight! Never say die, however … I will overcome. I will do it a day at a time. If I haul something out every single day I just may make it by DEC. 31, 2008 … even if skip Sundays. I feel guilty taking a lot of this stuff to the Deseret Industries because I just know it will fill up somebody else’s house. Isn’t there a saying that goes something like “One person’s junk is another person’s treasure?” I think it’s more like another person’s junk too. But how can you throw out a perfectly good empty cookie tin … even if you do have about 8 of them?
