Big Dan's Corner

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Yesterday one of my boxes got here from Florida and as Murphy’s law goes of course it was the smallest one with nothing I needed but I unpacked it. In the process I decided to clean out my night stand drawers. My night stand is like my catch all storage spot. I only actually use one of the drawers on my side which normally holds a book or two and some late night snacks. The bottom draw in that one holds a bunch of stuff I think I’m going to need at some point in the near future but never actually do.

On the other side of my bed, in the nightstand I don’t use, I have a bunch of keepsakes in the bottom drawer: Pictures, old letters, birthday cards, drawings from my sister, etc. The top drawer holds all my extra wires for A/V and computers. Normally that’s stuffed full a mess of tangled cords.

Now, I’d like to think of myself as a neat and tidy person. Generally I am but when it comes to  drawers I just keep stuffing stuff in them. In my ‘keepsake’ drawer I found Time magazines from 2001 and 2002 a newspaper from 2004, and a credit card receipt for chips and soda from Wal-Mart circa February 2000.

What the hell is with that? I am a sentimental person, pretty much anything anyone gives me I save. My sister loves drawing and stuff like that so I have tons of pictures from her. Birthday/Christmas and other cards I feel bad throwing them out. Hey, someone thought enough of me to send me a card, the least I can do is hold on to it….but for how long?

I wound up filing up a garbage pail full of old paper work. I found a report card from school back when I was 15. On a positive note, I found my GED (high school diploma) and my small business certificate from a local education center. I was looking for my GED for a while. I need to get frames for the both of them.

Today my the rest of my boxes came from FL. They were huge, 50 + pounds each, the girl in the post office could barely lift them onto the counter, I felt bad she was kinda cute too. I brought them upstairs and mom helped me unpack them. Mom’s help unpacking meant she stuffed everything back in the drawers I just cleaned out. LOL I was glad she helped though. Now I have a bunch of brand new clothes in plastic on my bed which have to go some where. That means I have to clean out my closet tonight or tomorrow. I have boxes up there still sealed, I wonder what the heck is up there. I know I have 3 or 4 boxes of CD jewel cases since I went to binders for my CDs but other than that I don’t know.

I may have to take some pictures of my closet cleaning fiasco..so you can see what I have to deal with!!