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RDP Friday: junk

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Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word “junk”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.

Image by Me & Gemini

If we had as much junk in our basement as seen in the image above, I’d be thrilled. I could clean out that amount of stuff in an afternoon. No, our basement looks more like the pic below. We have so much accumulated crap, it’s difficult to even move around …. and it’s mostly my husband’s. He has saved dozens of boxes of work files …. and he retired 16 years ago! Some of the companies he did business with don’t even exist anymore! Whenever I need something from the basement, I send him to look for it; he’s the only one who knows where anything is. He claims to have a method to his madness. Me? I just see the madness.

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This is “Too Much Stuff” by Delbert McClinton

RDP Friday! Junk!

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25 thoughts on “RDP Friday: junk”

  1. Isn’t it amazing how much stuff one can accumulate? And the more space you have, the easier it is!

    I hate to admit it, my garage looks a bit like a combo of the pictures. And each year, I plan to clear it out (it’s actually a double garage!) and get rid off what we no longer need – which sadly is most of it.

    And each year, I cheerfully don’t do it. This year, I finally have to get my act together!

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    1. Where have I heard that before? Oh that’s right …. my husband said the exact same thing!

      It’s obviously a very common condition; we have these items that we think we’re going to use again, so we hold onto them for safekeeping and we never see them again. It’s really quite a phenomenon, isn’t it?

      Thanks for sharing this little look into your garage, Christian. Hopefully, 2026 will be the year for decluttering!

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  3. You tie him up. I’ll back up the pick-up truck. We’ll have it cleaned out in no time, Nancy! 😂

    My husband is an old computer tech. We have more wires and cables and computer parts…aggravating as all get out. I keep telling him if he goes before me, all this stuff is going in the trash so he would be wise to clean it up now.

    What’s that saying? In one ear and out the other? Pretty much. 🙄😬

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