Sally too...you out there?

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:36 am

Hope your absence means you are having too much fun to spend time here right now.

Shirley

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:44 am

Yep, I'm here. I've been spending a lot of time with Korben and I am getting ready to do a major clean-out in the garage. I have been breaking down a zillion empty boxes and cleaning and my SIL is coming over today and we are going to take a whole truckload of stuff to the dump in his huge pickup. It will take a huge pickup. Also to the Goodwill. I want to get this done. It seems like I am always piling up stuff in the garage. Where does it all come from? I wrote an essay the other day about garbage. It makes me mad that every time you buy a screw or picture hangers, and, heaven forbid, a standing towel rack for your bathroom, it come all wrapped in plastic and has foam peanuts or little balls and other cardboard and I haven't even metioned the box. The pile of trash that you have left is twice as big as the item you bought. And 3/4 of that stuff is NOT biodegradable!!! I need a dumpster parked right outside my front door at all times. And I am just one person living here. I did have one bright spot in my trashy life, though. I bought Willie's new CD and I was pleased to note that it came in a simple cellophane wrapping (easy to remove) and that was it. You just opened the little sleeve and there was the CD. I didn't have to get out a single steak knife or pair of pliers to get to it!! You should all run out and buy that CD for that reason alone!!

Otherwise, everything is just ducky. Still a bit hot for my taste, but bearable.

Lots of love,

Sally

kate_ce1995 · Post by **kate_ce1995** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:44 am

HA HA Sally,

I'd love to read that essay! I remember a song about garbage from when I was a kid...but not well enough to repeat the lyrics. It irritates me too that we are getting more disposable as a society...wipes, disposable tupperware, swiffer, etc. I mean COME ON PEOPLE...have we learned nothing in the last 200 years? Of course I use wipes, so I can't complain too much, and I do have a tendancy of forgetting tupperware at work and it gets too gross to clean so into the trash it goes. BAD Katy BAD.

Enjoy the clean garage. Things always look so much more spacious when you get that annual cleaning done. OUrs needs it too.

Katy

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:16 am

Furthermore, you have to put everything together!! I remember the days when you could go to a department store and buy a standing towel rack all put together and you just carried it out of the store by one of the rungs and put it in your car and took it home and plunked it is the bathroom. No packaging, no screwing it together, no nothing. And a lot of people had jobs and they're spending their wages now on wrapping the stupid things. I'm sorry to be a cranky old lady, but sometimes the Olden Days WERE better!!

Hmph.

Love,

Sally

hazel · Post by **hazel** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:22 pm

Well, I hope you like the darn standing towel rack!