My husband and myself just spent the last few days organizing our office. The process involves heart-wrenching decisions over what to keep and what to throw away. Sometimes this isn't all that difficult but other times, I mean why should we keep the warranty for that can-opener that we donated two years ago, but you never know when you may need that rubber gasket or that twist tie or that single screw that came from who knows where. And of course, I really shouldn't have to explain that a universal truth comes into play here where the things my husband thinks should be thrown away are never his things and the things I think should be thrown away are never my things. You will be relieved to know that eventually our small office was reorganized...well...as good as it's going to get for right now. Then yesterday, I picked up our mail from the post office and received the following "funny" from a friend. The author, Hilary B. Price writes a comic stip called Rhymes With Orange. I'm Afflicted!!!!! And it hasn't stopped at baskets! It's mayonaise jars, and peach crates, and margarine tubs, and obsolete computer equipment, and garden seeds and plastic and paper grocery bags and.... Wait a minute....Do bushel baskets count?

Is Someone You Love Afflicted?

There is an epidemic in this country....it's called Basket Hoarding
According to our research, each household has 6.3 baskets* stored in their basement or in a hard-to-reach kitchen cabinet...
Scientists have linked this condition to the "Cause-You-Never-Know" syndrome, for which there is still no cure...

Essentials Checklist

[ ] piece of bubble-wrap

[ ] old screws in a jar

[ ] twisty-ties

[ ] etc, etc, etc...........


* 7.6 in the Midwest


Cliche of the Day

Goods and Chattels. One's possessions. "Chattel" derives from an old French word for cattle, but by the 16th century it had come to mean property and thus to contribute to one of the law's redundancies, since both "goods" and "chattels" mean property. William Lambarde, in A Perambulation of Kent (1570), wrote of the "custodie, not of the landes onely, but the goods and chattels also."