i have 4 piles in the house. (1) the recent pile is things that have come in the mail recently or need to be done in the last week. that is located on the dinning room table. (2) the monthly pile is in the den upstairs. that is stuff that has come in in the last month that i really need to sort through in the next month or so. (3) the 2006 pile is in the office upstairs. this is stuff that has been sitting there since thomas has been born. yes jan 8th. i try to take an item or two from that pile every week so it doesn't sit there forever.
(4) the last pile is the X-files pile... scary. it is compiled of all the items pre-2006, including from when i was on bedrest (sept to dec 05) and some stuff from when i left Mervyns in feb as well as some stuff from my previous employer (yes 2003). it is a fairly big pile. i tried to avoid it for a long time. i am sure there is a lot of stuff in there that is not even valid any more. i used to have it under my desk upstairs. then i moved it right next to the chair on the floor in an effort to get myself to take a look. i bumped it with my chair and now the stack has toppled backwards, kinda of in a fan. it is like art. i should take a close-up picture of it and blow it up real big for the wall. i can probably throw away half that stuff... *sigh* i just need to start looking through it. or maybe, if i manage not to touch any of it by the end of the year, i'll just toss the entire pile in the circular file...
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I hide my piles in cabinets. Twice it has happened to me that a guest who I don't know really well has come over and I've accidently opened these cabinets where my piles came tumbling down. So embaressing! Especially since I try to maintain a "clean-house" image. Ha! People only have to open my cabinets and closets to see the mess! :D
I have one big pile. I get yelled at for my pile. After the yelling, usually the pile ends up in the trash (to be read as: wife tosses the pile). Sometimes, I really wish certain things in the pile didn't go in the trash. But it's my fault for letting the pile get so big. Maybe if I separate the pile up into smaller piles, it won't seem as big and then there will be less of a chance of it all going into the trash. It seems like most women like to throw piles into the trash as exemplified by my wife and by joanna's comment. =)
Alan,
There's a place called the garage where if you make it greasy enough, your wife WILL stay out of it. THAT's where you can keep your piles forever and ever....
You just gotta learn how to work-around it...
Uh... my wife once entered the garage and tried to "clean up".
She threw away some car parts. Remember how my Storm didn't have a glove compartment towards the end of its life? :)
Well, I'm sure Regina has learned now that the garage is the domain of the caveman and although it might look like trash, it never is.
So Alan, make sure you clarify that with Audrey before making the garage your safe haven. I think I still have bike parts from 1986 when I was 16....in the garage.
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