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George Carlin used to talk about stuff. Where to put your stuff. How to deal with someone else's stuff when you begin dating. What stuff is important and what stuff should take a discovery adventure journey to the local landfill. I'm not sure, but if memory serves, George may have called it by a different name.
Be that as it may, I'm not here to quote him or compete with him. I'm just a guy with six kids and a LOT of stuff. In a small apartment. Life goes on and there are paths through my house to get from one end to the other. It might take a little longer than a single, straight line, but you'll get there.
In my home, stuff falls into one of three categories. Sometimes they even overlap. 1) Important stuff. 2) Entertainment stuff. 3) Stuff that needs to take a romantic cruise to that landfill. Just because something fits into a category, doesn't mean things get taken care of. For example, a number of items that fall into the last category still sit at my house. No one plans to keep it, but the journey hasn't yet begun.
And while entertaining stuff can be considered important, hardly ever is important stuff entertaining. Does this sound simple? It really is. So where does the problem begin? And believe me, my friends, this is the hard part.
The most important stuff that NEEDS saving is too much to fit into a simple box or filing cabinet. The overflow has to go somewhere else. In an apartment the size of the one I live in, the spot NEXT to the file cabinet is not usable under any circumstances. Therefore the other important stuff has to be stored...you got it. Somewhere else.
Now, suddenly, I get a letter in the mail or a knock at the door and I have to come up with some important paper very quickly. Imagine me going quickly through a drawer full of clothing. And it's usually clothing that I don't wear in a way people in public can see, if you know what I mean. As with things my kids lose, I have little chance of finding what I'm looking for. Perhaps I'll find it a week too late.
I think what I need to do is leave myself a note in the back of the file cabinet. Like stories in magazines. "Continued on page..." . The last thing in the cabinet drawer should be instructions (or a map) to the next storage location. This might streamline my searches. Too bad that wouldn't work for the TV remote.
If I go into the bathroom I can come up with some piece of paper. I know what you're thinking, but you're mistaken. That happens to be where my file cabinet is kept.
Al Musitano
Submitted by DadofManatee on Nov. 28, 2008, 8:54 am
George Carlin used to talk about stuff. Where to put your stuff. How to deal with someone else's stuff when you begin dating. What stuff is important and what stuff should take a discovery adventure journey to the local landfill. I'm not sure, but if memory serves, George may have called it by a different name.
Be that as it may, I'm not here to quote him or compete with him. I'm just a guy with six kids and a LOT of stuff. In a small apartment. Life goes on and there are paths through my house to get from one end to the other. It might take a little longer than a single, straight line, but you'll get there.
In my home, stuff falls into one of three categories. Sometimes they even overlap. 1) Important stuff. 2) Entertainment stuff. 3) Stuff that needs to take a romantic cruise to that landfill. Just because something fits into a category, doesn't mean things get taken care of. For example, a number of items that fall into the last category still sit at my house. No one plans to keep it, but the journey hasn't yet begun.
And while entertaining stuff can be considered important, hardly ever is important stuff entertaining. Does this sound simple? It really is. So where does the problem begin? And believe me, my friends, this is the hard part.
The most important stuff that NEEDS saving is too much to fit into a simple box or filing cabinet. The overflow has to go somewhere else. In an apartment the size of the one I live in, the spot NEXT to the file cabinet is not usable under any circumstances. Therefore the other important stuff has to be stored...you got it. Somewhere else.
Now, suddenly, I get a letter in the mail or a knock at the door and I have to come up with some important paper very quickly. Imagine me going quickly through a drawer full of clothing. And it's usually clothing that I don't wear in a way people in public can see, if you know what I mean. As with things my kids lose, I have little chance of finding what I'm looking for. Perhaps I'll find it a week too late.
I think what I need to do is leave myself a note in the back of the file cabinet. Like stories in magazines. "Continued on page..." . The last thing in the cabinet drawer should be instructions (or a map) to the next storage location. This might streamline my searches. Too bad that wouldn't work for the TV remote.
If I go into the bathroom I can come up with some piece of paper. I know what you're thinking, but you're mistaken. That happens to be where my file cabinet is kept.
Al Musitano
