The environment you live in matters and mine is wrecked by three children. Three children that have too much stuff. The kids wanted to do a yard sale at one point but we never got around to it. Meaning we never set a date. Setting a date, planning, organizing. That is what gets things in motion. Making it a reality.
Perhaps we need to do a post Labor Day yard sale. Set the date, put it in stone, and get stuff together and on the curb to be sold. The problem is the kids don’t want to part with any of their toys and some of their projects are hard to part with as well. One day I threw all the Father’s Day stuff in the trash and felt terrible about it, but what are we going to do with it. It is homeless junk floating around the house. It had to go.
The big problem is the kids have no idea how to pick up as they go. When they are finished playing with one toy they need to put it away before they get out the next toy. Now many people might say it is the parent that should teach them and I have tried. I try to set that example. I clean my pots and pans soon after using them. I used to clean them before eating the food.
The biggest bane of my existence is the dishwasher and how it creates an endless cycle of the inability to clean up as you go. There is a delay between the dishwasher being put away and being refilled and dishes just keep stacking and piling up. It makes the kitchen unusable. It bothers me to no end as most of the time I’m not in the mood to put away the dishwasher and when I do I get yelled at for putting something in the wrong place.
I do think it is time to set a date for a yard sale and get these kids to collect everything they want to put in it, or any toy they’d like to go to a new home.
David Huzzard Writes 