2004-08-10
PACK RAT TENDENCIES
It ought to be my shame but, like many others, I've gone and rented a storage bin to keep the "stuff" I've accumulated over the years | And I've started emplying out the attic and spare room [my old "office", now hidden underneath things] And much of what's in the storage bin is books | Though I'm partial to books with illustrations and photographs, the subject matter and content of those books vary widely | The "shame" part is keeping books where I can't get at them |
Mind you, I store other things there as well | Couches, camping equipment, finished canvases that I haven't room to store at home [to be honest, I would get bored if surrounded only by my own work], an assortment of tools [drill press, bandsaw, etc] that I hope to use again some day | So it's not a waste of space I suppose |
It's not like I've gone overboard and rented a storage condo | I'm just trying to save valuable stuff without getting excessive | How does that make me any
different than the hundreds of others who rent spaces where I do? | They can't all be pack rats, eh? | I mean, I don't even have the book | At least, in storing things in a large rent-a-shed, I do it neatly |
Actually, not everybody would agree | Laura Billings wrote recently that, in her opinion, the best place for storage is the dumpster | I know my partner Bruce might agree with this | If so, maybe he can hire me Clutterboy to help haul everything away |
It ought to be my shame but, like many others, I've gone and rented a storage bin to keep the "stuff" I've accumulated over the years | And I've started emplying out the attic and spare room [my old "office", now hidden underneath things] And much of what's in the storage bin is books | Though I'm partial to books with illustrations and photographs, the subject matter and content of those books vary widely | The "shame" part is keeping books where I can't get at them |
Mind you, I store other things there as well | Couches, camping equipment, finished canvases that I haven't room to store at home [to be honest, I would get bored if surrounded only by my own work], an assortment of tools [drill press, bandsaw, etc] that I hope to use again some day | So it's not a waste of space I suppose |
It's not like I've gone overboard and rented a storage condo | I'm just trying to save valuable stuff without getting excessive | How does that make me any
different than the hundreds of others who rent spaces where I do? | They can't all be pack rats, eh? | I mean, I don't even have the book | At least, in storing things in a large rent-a-shed, I do it neatly |
Actually, not everybody would agree | Laura Billings wrote recently that, in her opinion, the best place for storage is the dumpster | I know my partner Bruce might agree with this | If so, maybe he can hire me Clutterboy to help haul everything away |
pix credit: Tom Anderson, aka Clutterboy got a write up in the Los Altos [CA] Town Crier in 2003 |
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