Spring Cleaning
As Linda says, we’re doing some spring cleaning. It’s partly to get ready for the baby, but we’re finding that there’s an awful lot of crap sitting around here taking up space. While I’m not quite ready to get rid of my collection of Google T-shirts (I did split them into ones I’ll wear vs. ones I won’t, however), there’s a lot of old shoeboxes, backpacks, camera equipment, and other misc. crap sitting around.
I always end up asking myself not just why we have so much stuff, but how we got it in the first place. In line to be sold at our impending yard sale we have:
- A photographic enlarger and some darkroom supplies that have been following me around through three apartments. This is left over from my “I’m going to be a photographer when I grow up” phase.
- Some plastic sailing pants that Linda bought about 10 years ago.
- Ski pants that I bought for a trip to Tahoe about 6 years ago and used once.
- A one-eyed leaping frog.
- About three office’s worth of office supplies. Hanging folders, three-ring binders, resume paper.
- Two paper shredders
- At least 12 empty shoeboxes. And we’re keeping at least three of them. Because my wife is crazy.
- An eye, for a leaping frog.
We have enough miscellaneous small parts (key rings, carabiners, buttons, etc) that if you show up to the yard sale and make a purchase, you will be getting one of these items from our “free gift with purchase” bag. And you will take it home with you, or at least off the premises.