M loves to buy shit, and also, messy living room picture (annotated)

[same_sky]

My grandfather, who lived through the Depression, always had a thing for buying toilet paper. When us kids would tease him about his stockpile of TP, he would just say that if you knew what it was like to not have toilet paper, you would always make sure to have some on hand. I think that was just something he said to make us to laugh, but sometimes I think that maybe M is the one that lived through some hard times as a youth. Boyo believes in stocking up. Recently, he has decided that Kraft mac-n-cheese is a food descended from Heaven, as you can greatly improve the meal-like quality of it by adding in chopped up sausages or hot dogs. He's a big meat fan, after all. So, every time we went shopping, he'd buy some and put it in our little room--it's a walk-in closet off the laundry room that is just lovely for storage space. We use it partially as a pantry for extra food. I went in there one day to get something and counted FIFTEEN boxes of mac-n-cheese. Fifteen. Dude! No one needs fifteen boxes of processed cheese food product! He's completely nuts. I wrote about the same thing over four years ago, with a picture. Boyo has exceeded his previous crazy now, though. I left him alone for JUST A MINUTE while Evelyn and I went to pick up something in another aisle. When I came back, he had SIXTEEN CASES of Pepsi in the cart. My jaw just dropped open, much to the amusement of other shoppers... who asked us if we were having a party. No, world. We are not having a party. We are having a problem weighting our floor down to keep it from blowing off in case of a tornado. Geez. At least the mac-n-cheese takes up almost no space!

I don't even want to think about how much crap I have left to do this week. We were cleaning/working this afternoon, when suddenly M stopped and pointed out that the house is in MUCH worse shape than it has ever been. We had everything pulled out while working on various projects, and also we got behind on the routine stuff like laundry. So, being a good little nerd, he documented the messiest living room with a picture. I added the commentary, of course. He's standing at the back of the dining room, facing the living room. To his left is the kitchen. I can't believe I am actually posting this on the internets. Oi.



This week will be lots of fun! ;)

Comments

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

You ARE dariing! Our living/dining rooms were looking an awful lot like this not too long ago... and only the bedrooms do! Not sure if that's really progress or not! ;-)

[e11en.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's almost neat compared to our house! There's a reason I don't have any pictures from inside to show the world yet.

Det bästa jag har sett

[swingtime.livejournal.com]

Kära K & M!
Ert hus ser ut precis som det skall när man har en liten myra som behöver all uppsmärksamhet. Jag blir glad och varm om hjärtat när jag ser att ni kan skita i röran och ägna er åt det som är viktigt, nämligen lilla bebban. Röra kommer ni alltid ha att ha men liten bebba har ni bara just nu och tiden går så fort när de är små.

Bra prioritering skulle jag vilja säga, och som en parentes, hurra för tygblöjor, mycket skönare och mycket mindre slitage på miljön!