My husband bought a zip tie kit when he installed a car alarm in our car and now every grouping of cables or wires in the house has zip ties on it and anytime I move furniture I find a few of them "misplaced". But I have chapstick in every glove box or purse I use.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
Oh mykidsmom, your grandma story reminded me of my husband's grandfather. He "collected" concrete blocks. Yes, that's right! They lined the walls of the garage and were even stacked up the middle about three rows high. Was that a fun job to get rid of after he passed away!
Boxes...small, large, cute, fancy, ugly. My grandma (bless her heart) saved boxes. Her basement was full of so many boxes my brother rented a dumpster!
sssshhhhh I have five of the pretty ones, and now they are pricless to me as she recently passed on. They still smell like her house too.
I too threw away my 1989 college directory...just a few days ago.
I remember a couple of years back when I had to move my mom & dad into a smaller place. The junk that they had save was unreal. Broken tools (I'm going to fix it one day) to parts of arts and crafts projects (I was going to finish that up and give it to you).
After that experience, I swore that I would never do that to my kids! I did save my yearbooks and my cap & gown from high school and that's it.
My oldest daughter is graduating from the same highschool in June and has asked if she could wear my cap & gown since they're still wearing the same colors. As you can see, not much changes in these sleepy old towns
One of the first things both my mother and mother-in-law did when we moved into our house was to deliver large containers full of the "important stuff" my husband and I had saved from our youth. It's unbelieveable what you can feel is important to save at the time and then when you look at it a few years later, you wonder what on earth you were thinking. My husband had saved the phone directory from our college. Like that was going to be useful after 10 years!
