Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 25, 2017

Why does this sound familiar? Sigh.

So….. Waitingman was wrong when he called it a decorative curling stone?

So is J’s facepam “I can’t believe you said that!” or “I can’t believe I was about to toss this when we need it next week!”?

And it’s been in the buffet for 10 years because it got put there when new and immediately forgotten. Had it been out, in sight, it would have been used constantly.

The accumulated dross of a lifetime. How we cling to it.

I have an idea. Let’s fill the house with crap, so the kids will have to carry it to a dumpster when we croak.

This is so familiar, except the roles are reversed at my house.

I don’t think a Trick-r-Treater will want it.

But there’s a thought…

instead of unhealthy candy, give ’em the extra three staple removers from the desk drawer,

the 6 or 7 pairs of reading glasses from the 20th century that aren’t strong enough any more….

those two decks of Pinochle cards you bought by accident….

C’mon there’s LOTS of stuff, if you look around.

BTW 10 years is nothing.

A candy dish from 2007 is still new in my house.

Then again, though I do eat my share of candy, I’ve never set any out in a dish.

So the kids can have all the gift candy dishes I can find in the house…

including three shaped like M&Ms that the same person gave me on three different birthdays.

If you’re planning to come by my house on Halloween, you’ve been forewarned.

I’ve purged my place of a lot of the old junk in the last two moves, to lighten the load. The first move I put everything in the garage and had Got Junk come a haul it all away. A lot of hard decision had to me made. It’s a good thing my wife wasn’t in the garage at the time.

When the wife has a ‘cleanout’ it’s always YOUR stuff that has to go.

It’s a Candy Dish! Glad that was explained. I donate things without telling my husband. He never misses them.

It’s an “ugly candy” dish….of course it hasn’t been used, who wants to buy ugly candy?

An ugly candy dish would be perfect for the holding trick or treat candy.

I once sold an ‘ugly’ candy dish for next to nothing at a yard sale. A few weeks later, I read a piece in the local paper about someone buying a very rare and valuable depression glass candy dish in someone’s driveway. Seeing me mourning for my loss of fortune, my son said “Cheer up, Mom. If you’d known what it was, you would never have sold it and it would still be cluttering up the house. At least you have five dollars more than you did.”

Consider it NOSTALGIA not HOARDING

Sis (who’s over a half-century old) still has in 5ft. tall U-Haul moving boxes things from when she was 16.. i don’t think she’ll ever ‘unpack’..