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Post by uualto1973 on Jul 5, 2010 19:23:02 GMT -5
Several months ago, my husband decided to completely gut our nasty cluttered coat closet. It had a few coats, but also a couple broken lamps, games with missing pieces, a box of damaged paperbacks, broken toys, some throw pillows that didn't match anything (like that matters in our house!). It was piled waist high (or is it "waste" high?) with crap. Anyway, after spending hours cleaning the junk out, he found - buried under all the junk - the "Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Life".  Has anything funny or ironic happened to you because of your squalor, or while you've been digging out? |
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Post by MiSC on Jul 5, 2010 19:36:58 GMT -5
I was just straightening some books up that had spilled onto the floor and dug out a copy of "Buried in Treasures". I had no idea I owned it.
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Post by messymimi on Jul 5, 2010 19:43:53 GMT -5
I have several such books around the house, most of them under a box or a dust bunny.
While I can't think of a specific instance right now, I have a vague recollection of sometimes running across an item right after I put it on the shopping list, because I didn't remember I already had it.
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Post by Little_Ninja on Jul 5, 2010 20:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by def6 on Jul 6, 2010 15:21:20 GMT -5
Keeping "things" to make my life happier, more rich, more creative, just plain better.... when the things actually cost me money, time and energy as well as metal distress. That's irony at it's finest!
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Post by amberwind on Jul 6, 2010 18:51:25 GMT -5
My husband and I had a year and a half period of semi-homelessness not long after we were married - everything we owned at the time was shoved into a storage unit with the exception of our bed and clothes, and those things got bounced into whatever spare room a relative would let us access. When moving into our current space, I decided that all of the board games would live in one spot, which they hadn't in the previous apartment. So I started stacking every game in the closet... and discovered that we had somehow acquired FIVE copies of Monopoly between getting married and moving into our current apartment.
We've kept all of them, and are currently working on the rules for Mega Monopoly, using 4 of the boards in a single, humongous game. We fully intend to drive someone to insanity the first time we play it with friends.
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Post by uualto1973 on Jul 6, 2010 19:59:22 GMT -5
We've kept all of them, and are currently working on the rules for Mega Monopoly, using 4 of the boards in a single, humongous game. We fully intend to drive someone to insanity the first time we play it with friends. That sounds awesome! I would definitely play! Does that mean you can choose which direction to go in at certain corners? |
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Post by amberwind on Jul 7, 2010 0:49:30 GMT -5
That sounds awesome! I would definitely play! Does that mean you can choose which direction to go in at certain corners? It's still a work in progress, but some rules are already set. The first round you have to go all the way around the outer edge, then after that you can cut through the middle either vertically or horizontally. To be able to up the rent on a color you have to have all the properties of that color on all 4 boards. Hostile takeovers are allowed. You start out with triple the money as a regular game. And the loser has to make dinner.  These games last for *hours*. We've discovered it's infinitely more entertaining if the players are drinking. |
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Post by messyLlundain on Jul 7, 2010 5:03:14 GMT -5
During a recent clear out, I came across the book that accompanies the TV program, 'How Clean Is Your House?'.
It was a gift from my daughter. She had written a message in it.
In answer to the question 'how clean is your house?', she had written, '' sparkling and shiny after you've read this book!''.
That was 2003, she'd dated the inscription.
7 years later and I'm just about getting there.
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Jul 7, 2010 7:25:18 GMT -5
i bought Flylady's book "Kitchen Sink Reflections". Started reading it, lost it, bought ANOTHER copy, then I found the first! Now I have two Copies! funny, I don't really need them> Everything she has to say is already on her website, and for free!
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Post by _Linda_ on Jul 7, 2010 9:33:48 GMT -5
Though I have only found a few duplicates on books, I have found numerous bottles of cleaning supplies. I think that I had 5 bottles of bleach, 3 bottles of pinesol and 6 bottles of bathroom cleaners. Oh well, the intent was there.  But now they are being used before I buy anymore.  |
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