Welcome to my blog. Why am I doing this? Because, frankly, a basement is not for junking. It's for recreation, it's for a spare room, and it's for going to in case of a tornado. We can't do that right now.
There are many reasons for why our basement is as bad as it is; Dad's love of box-hoarding, the recent death of my grandfather and my mom "rescuing" stuff from his house, the junk my siblings and I accumulated during college years...The fact is, we are pack-rats. We save too much. We live in a material society that taught us quantity was more valuable than quality. We also don't know how to recycle. All that combined left us with a basement so full of clutter and broken flooring and walls, that I don't honestly remember the last time we used that room.
My ultimate goal is to clean out the basement, straighten up the workshop (a room built into the basement), and make it livable again. I would love to be able to have a game room down there, or (if we can have it sealed up) a spare bedroom for when my brother comes home. The space has potential...somewhere under all that stuff. I hope this experience will teach my whole family about how we can better minimize our trash and well as our "prized processions".
Day 2: progress. I wish I took a picture before I started so you could fully appreciate how bad it is down here. Yesterday I started Phase 1, Operation Kill All Boxes, which produced something I had not seen in over ten years- the rainbow carpet. I bet it was vibrant in that 70's vintage gaudy way when it was new. Now, it needs to come up...whenever I get to phase 4. Tonight, I stepped ona tack. Minor setback. Unless I get tetanus.
FIND OF THE DAY: Old Commodore 64 magazines, in perfect condition. Because...it was important to know how to cheat at Frogger.
BOXES KILLED: 19
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