2007
think before you speculate
maura @ 9:34 pm
We’re doing a bunch of rearranging and painting and other home improvement-type things this month, and it’s provoked yet another archaeological expedition into the closets. Break out the trowels! I think I’ve mentioned before that our closets are really great: ample in both volume and number. Yes, I am indeed bragging about the closets, but we don’t have a yard, parking space or vegetable garden, so I think I’m entitled to some closet pride, doncha think?
I’m slightly ashamed to admit the depth of our packrattery in such a public forum, but what good is the interwebs if not for self-mockery?
Here’s what I found in a bedroom closet:
2 kitchen garbage bags of styrofoam packing peanuts
Here’s what I found in the front hall closet:
1 kitchen garbage bag of styrofoam packing peanuts
2 boxes (each 24″x18″x11″) filled with packing peanuts
1 kitchen garbage bag of bubble wrap
Let me also point out that these are the discards, the bags and boxes that are leaving our apartment very soon! This is all IN ADDITION TO the 4 bags of packing peanuts and bubble wrap that we are keeping for mailing packages.
Thank goodness the mailing store a few blocks away accepts donations of packing materials. Maybe that’s the reason we kept them in the first place, unwillingness to send them to the landfill? More likely we thought we’d keep them just in case.
2 comments on “think before you speculate”
Wow, who knew? We are flirting with getting a cat, and were looking at pictures of cats in boxes of packing peanuts on cute overload the other day. But I still think these boxes need to GO.
I have opened more than one cardboard box that I was saving “just in case” only to find if filled with packing peanuts. For awhile I gave them to my mom so she could use them to fill the itter box of her dear departed cat when she needed to collect a urine sample. (Yeah, that’s a use you probably didn’t think of, but try throwing them out now — someone with an old cat might really need them.)