The difficulty isn’t so much doing the cleaning, it’s the decisions!
I’m reminded of a joke that I can’t use anymore because racist. Hmm. OK, so I’ll recast it a bit.
The farmer had a cousin who wasn’t right bright, so the family had set him to doing a lot of the outside chores. But one ugly winter day, the farmer told the cousin that as a treat, he could work inside, sorting the potatoes into “eat ’em” and “use ’em for seed”. After a couple of hours, he went to check on the cousin and found him sitting in front of the potato bin, there was one potato in the “eat” bucket and two in the “seed” bucket. Asked why the slow progress, cuz replied “I really don’t mind workin’ but these decisions are KILLIN’ me!”
I did that three times already. It’s incredible how quickly garages are filling up again.
I should have set up a lemonade sale stand combined with garage sale to earn some money instead of paying for the dumpster. Sadly here in Germany garage sale isn’t a thing so there’s no buying public.
I had a friend who was moving cross-country after having lived in the same place for about 20 years, and all of our mutual friends pitched in to help him pack. He was an editor and had more books than a branch library. Half a dozen of us worked for 3 days straight trying to get them all boxed before we finally sat down with him, exhausted, and said he needed to hire some strong young guys to help finish the work, which at the rate we were going still had about a week to go, and he was supposed to be out of the house by Sunday. He eventually did that but still ended up throwing out about half the stuff he’d wanted to move to his new place. And not a cleverly thot-out, lower-priority half, either, just the stuff we hadn’t been able to get to.
When you accumulate things a little at a time, and tuck them into convenient open niches, you don’t really realize just how much sheer total space they take up. Or how heavy they are.
If there is enough stuff in one garage to fill a giant dumpster, he might have the right idea. I wonder if they park their cars outside of the garage because they can’t get in it?
Concretionist about 3 years ago
The difficulty isn’t so much doing the cleaning, it’s the decisions!
I’m reminded of a joke that I can’t use anymore because racist. Hmm. OK, so I’ll recast it a bit.
The farmer had a cousin who wasn’t right bright, so the family had set him to doing a lot of the outside chores. But one ugly winter day, the farmer told the cousin that as a treat, he could work inside, sorting the potatoes into “eat ’em” and “use ’em for seed”. After a couple of hours, he went to check on the cousin and found him sitting in front of the potato bin, there was one potato in the “eat” bucket and two in the “seed” bucket. Asked why the slow progress, cuz replied “I really don’t mind workin’ but these decisions are KILLIN’ me!”
Bilan about 3 years ago
They bring the dumpster to you, but you need a credit card.
whahoppened about 3 years ago
Caulfield, you will have earned your keep just FILLING that dumpster!!
unfair.de about 3 years ago
I did that three times already. It’s incredible how quickly garages are filling up again.
I should have set up a lemonade sale stand combined with garage sale to earn some money instead of paying for the dumpster. Sadly here in Germany garage sale isn’t a thing so there’s no buying public.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
His parents’ reaction might just make him wish he had saved a really soft cushion.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
I had a friend who was moving cross-country after having lived in the same place for about 20 years, and all of our mutual friends pitched in to help him pack. He was an editor and had more books than a branch library. Half a dozen of us worked for 3 days straight trying to get them all boxed before we finally sat down with him, exhausted, and said he needed to hire some strong young guys to help finish the work, which at the rate we were going still had about a week to go, and he was supposed to be out of the house by Sunday. He eventually did that but still ended up throwing out about half the stuff he’d wanted to move to his new place. And not a cleverly thot-out, lower-priority half, either, just the stuff we hadn’t been able to get to.
When you accumulate things a little at a time, and tuck them into convenient open niches, you don’t really realize just how much sheer total space they take up. Or how heavy they are.
Dewey Premium Member about 3 years ago
A giant dumpster? Sounds like he plans to clean the garage by emptying everything out of it.
Moonkey Premium Member about 3 years ago
If there is enough stuff in one garage to fill a giant dumpster, he might have the right idea. I wonder if they park their cars outside of the garage because they can’t get in it?
B.D. about 3 years ago
An unsupervised child hanging out with an adult, where’s the usual outrage?
Scott S about 3 years ago
https://www.wm.com/us/en/home/bagster
rshive about 3 years ago
Hard to disguise a dumpster.