Junk Drawer

I’ve heard that everyone has a junk drawer… that place where all the “I might use this someday, but until then I have no idea what to do with it” things go. Well I have a secret, Don and I have or rather had a junk room. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t the WHOLE room, it was half of a room the other half is a guest bed. So our lucky guests got to see the piles of stuff we had as they were shoved in the remaining half. It all started with the wedding. When you throw a wedding you end up with a lot of candle holders, flower vases, candles and what can only be called as miscellaneous junk. Now this stuff is perfectly good… and should you ever throw another wedding or equally elaborate party you will be all set. It is close enough to being maybe useful that you can’t convince yourself to throw it out or give it away.
Well today I had had enough. I couldn’t take it; my nesting bug was at its wits end. So with Dons help we cleaned out the room… that’s right I went through and even let go of some of the stuff. We didn’t just move the stuff into another storage place either, we went through it. At the end I was having trouble letting the last few things go. We had these glass canister things that look very cool but are 100% not practical in my life. I told Don I wanted to keep them, he told me to get rid of them. We went back and forth and he said if I couldn’t come up with a use then I had to get rid of them. I gave in. Two minutes later I found something of his; it had been sitting in this room because there was no use for it. I told him he had to get rid of it if he couldn’t come up with a use. He gave in; it made it all worth giving up the glass canisters. We are officially out of items on the house to-do list now (at least things that don’t involve power tools)... at least until I find something else.