Carol and I spent most of yesterday working on our half garage. We share our garage with our next door neighbor in the condo. Our half of the garage has always looked worse than the other half, though most of the time we have been here the other half belonged to the nuns who lived next door and they were like ultra neat people. Still I would look at their half and then at our half and the half that was ours looked even more like a mess compared to theirs. Now a young couple lives next door. They have more stuff than we do, but it still looks neater.
Anyway we getting rid of years and years of carelessly disposed and stored junk.
Books, books, books, tapes of all kinds and paper—those are the dominant disposables. Six filing cabinets of paper, plus several boxes of paper.
We went out and bought Carol a mega-shredder to shred the paper. She is proud of her new shredder and says she feels like a man with his chain saw. We have a basic philosophical difference about paper disposal. She is worried about identify theft and wants to shred every piece of paper. I think this identity theft thing is grossly exaggerated and so don’t understand why she needs to shred every piece of paper. Or maybe I don’t care if somebody steals my identity. I mean, here, take it. I could use another one.
I took bags of dead batteries and ink cartridges and old cans of paint and paint thinner over to the toxic disposal site at the university. The guy there said they get 10,000 pounds of toxic junk every weekend. We didn’t want to use up all of the space in the trash containers everybody in our three units use so later we drove over to trash dump place nearby and unloaded paper. Then we went to Osh and bought some shelves to go next to the shelves we already have.
I believe people all over the USA are now overflowing with junk. I saw a truck with “1-800-Got Junk?” on it, and I looked them up on the web. They will pick up every thing practically but a corpse and dispose of it for you. They say they are the nation’s foremost junk disposal company and have grown 500% over the last three years.
In the late afternoon I spent a little time working on Tingle Territory and put together some pictures of Cemeteries and Churches. Rather than try to move these from the google site to my site on yahoo, I decided to use the google photo site instead and it looks pretty good. You can check it out at:
