So as you can see I've started a blog. (Pronounced blog for you newbies). Let's start with some background information first. My parents visited me this past weekend bringing items from my childhood nursery to me that I wanted to use in the nursery I am setting up for their first grandchild. I had decided to go with a Winnie the Pooh theme and since my mom is what I'll term a "saver" she conviently had all the Pooh nursery decor from my nursery 27 years ago.
My house is very neat. I've been nesting and I've organized and cleaned my entire house. I'm out of things to clean. Then, here my mom is with all this old stuff and it hit me, clean mom's basement. Win-win, I feed my nesting addiction and my mom gets her basement cleaned out. Only my mom really likes her stuff....
I think my mom spent 2 hours telling us why she needed everything in her basement. Or why someone else would need it. But they can't have it because 1) it's in my mom's basement 2) they don't know it's there 3) she won't give it to them anyway.
What qualifies me you ask to clean out my mom's basement? Well first of all, I've already done it approx. 25 times (conservative estimate). I have also been a proud basement owner for the last 3 years and I don't have anything in my basement. I repeat - there is nothing in my basement. How can this be??? Well I'm not a saver I'm a thrower-outer.
So here is my blog where I will chronicle my journey of trying to clean my mom's basement. For part of my "grand opening" if you will, I have decided on a giveaway.
"This is a used childrens book in acceptable condition" you may say to yourself. Oh, it's not just any book. See, over the weekend my mom brought me a stack of Dr. Seuss book's she's been saving (which she wants back when I'm done). In the pile there was a duplicate! So mom if you are reading this I'm sorry but you are not getting it back. It's not going back in the basement. I'm taking a stand. First person to comment WHO IS NOT MOM gets the book!
Please save it for my children.
ReplyDeleteOk you WIN! Unfortunately I'm not starting a basement hoard, I'm cleaning one out. You need to redeem the prize ASAP as I cannot store it for 5+ years.
ReplyDeleteI see Jess has already beat me to it....not that I need a Dr. Seuss book at the moment. When you're done with your Mom's house, feel free to start on my mom's house. I'm apparently hoarding a ton of crap from when I was a kid and didn't take with me when I moved. The only condition is that you can't tell me what you throw out. If I don't know it's gone, I won't miss it.
ReplyDeleteMary Kate