Posted by
M*A on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:31:30 PM
So….I
have two days off…plenty of time to get everything on my to do list
done…right? Not so much. Most of the list was Christmas
stuff…literally. Christmas trees mostly. I decided a couple of years
ago that I just couldn’t keep up the annual boxes down from the
attic…chaos all over the house…boxes back up into the attic routine for
much longer. A little explanation… the store where I work…Christmas is
THE time of year. It is for most retailers…but we specialize in
Christmas. So…I’ve collected a lot of STUFF over the years…garlands
and flowers and musical teddy bears and …you know..STUFF. But carting
down and unpacking and packing and carting back up…gets to you after 18
years. So what I’ve decided to do was to have a tree for every room.
Not a big tree…most of them are table top size. But themed for the
room…and decorated…and at the end of the season…wrapped in plastic and
up into the attic until next year when…down from the attic…bag
off…lights plugged in…ta da…decorating DONE! There is one little
catch…space has to be made for the tree in each room. What to do with
the displaced STUFF? That is what got me to thinking in a major way
about STUFF…and finally had me looking for George Carlin….
I am comforted by my STUFF…and I do admit…I have waaay too much of
it. Maybe 2009 will be the year I finally purge some of the
unnecessary STUFF…but until then…excuse me…the last tree is ready to be
plugged in and I have to find a place to put some STUFF.