Wedding blog - Big Day minus 200

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You just never know where incentive to do something will come from. Our house is cluttered. It has been for years. GW and I are both packrats, unwilling to throw out or give away things (eBay gives us the new option of selling them). We're not as bad as the people on TLC's "Clean Sweep" show - we keep the floor space and most working surfaces clear, for instance - but we pale in comparison with various friends and family members. It hasn't helped that we both work a distance from home. We leave the house by 7:15 AM, and by the time we get home, cook dinner, eat it and clean up the pots and pans, it's well after 7:00 PM and the last thing we want to do after the long day is clean house. While we do manage to clean enough to have the occasional party or family get-together and not be totally embarrassed, there is still lots of "stuff" in the house.

Anyhoo, the pending wedding seems to have given me the incentive to clean. My current reading list (I juggle two or three reading items at a time, depending on where I'm doing the reading) includes It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh of the aforementioned "Clean Sweep". I've spent the last couple of evenings fixing things that have been in a state of disrepair for years. One has even existed since we bought the house over twenty-seven years ago (it's unobtrusive, but it's there). Like all my fixit jobs, it looks like crap and needs some repainting, but it will be completed tonight. (I had to stop because the last part was noisy and BD went to bed early.)

I will be digging through the basement some more this weekend to move around the comic books and determine which to put up on eBay first, mainly to make room for some of the stuff hanging around upstairs. No, that's not just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic; the stuff upstairs CAME from downstairs, and its space there mysteriously vanished before it could move back. Any and all profits from the comic sales are found money, as far as I'm concerned, and will help pay for the wedding. (There's a bizarre thought. Paying for a child's wedding wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I started reading and collecting DC Comics in 1966, or stopped about twenty-five years later.)

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