Ok, so this has been the last week before school starts and I have been doing the deep after summer house cleaning. That means cleaning out the kids' closets, under beds, in drawers, and all other hiding places I can find. While cleaning the thought occurred to me that everyone must be a pack rat or hoarder of something. As I helped clean out the bedrooms I learned-
- Rebecca and Savannah's like to keep all kinds of trash, Dum Dum wrappers, broken crayons, dried out markers, broken jewelery, and stuffed animals.
- Little Joe also like to keep all kinds of trash, old school papers, and tiny useless toys. (I am not even sure where the toys come from.
- Kiley and Sarah's room as been the catch all crap room for years. It houses everything that I don't know where to put or think I will put it away later. There were a couple of donate to Goodwill bags, lots of bags and boxes of clothes that are either too big for Kiley or Sarah. I am proud to say that I got everything put away.
- As a family we have (the first things to come to mind)- outdated computer games, pages and pages of usernames and passwords to various websites, and cassette tapes (we lack anything to play them with). I am sure there is more. While cleaning out the girls' closet I came across two boxes. I knew exactly what they were, 14 years of church magazines. As I looked at these boxes I asked myself why I was keeping these magazines because if I really needed an article or something I could get it from the computer. I keep these Magazines because my mom does. Well, I decided since they were not getting used much there was no reason to keep them but I could not bring myself to throw them all out. So to help myself out I kept two Magazines from each year- the May and November issues of The Ensign (there are the conference issues). So now I have a half box filled with General Conference talks going back to 1997.
I am sure that everyone reading this has something that you just can't get rid of. What do you find your family pack ratting or hoarding?
3 comments:
I've done that with Ensigns too. I also decided to only keep the General Conference copies, but I'm planning on reading the rest of the magazines cover to cover before I toss them.
Other than that, I've created a collection of various recipes, cutting them out of magazines, etc. I don't know why, since I can look up recipes online and don't cook all that much.
if it's free, we'll take it! so we pretty much pack rat EVERYTHING...random stuff! and then when i have to clean up my house, i never know where to put any of it!j
Debra- I think we "collect" magazines and recipes because mom does.
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