William, you're toying with the emotions of a vulnerable and desperate man! I've just made the gut-wrenching decision to rid my life of all UHUP (Useless hardware of Unknown Purpose). I need support! Not temptation!
Not only am I going to throw this stuff away, I'm going to do it with a vengeance. I'm not simply going to place it in a dumpster, I'm going to slam it into that dumpster like a stuffed basketball at the buzzer! I'm going to whistle while I work. I'm going to go about this with a tooth-gnashing sneer on my face. Hah! Take that, you crappy old 2-foot piece of conduit! You thought you could just lay around my workshop, useless, good for nothing, leftover from a project almost 20 years ago! Well, time's up. No more rolling out into my work space, no more tripping me. You're outa here! I've seen the light... Or, at least I hope to, once the windowsill in my basement workshop is freed from its clutter. I feel better already. I know all this clutter has been laughing at me behind my back for years. Oh sure, when I open the door and turn on the light, everything's quiet, nothing moves. But, when I leave, that's when it starts. All that junk is down there, moving around, finding new ways to trip me up. Well, I've had it! No more! This clutter is gonna be sorry it ever had the audacity to invade Barry Levine's workshop. --Barry -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Stephan Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:37 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Recovering from PRS (Pack Rat Syndrome) Barry! Barry, wait, wait! For your own sake you absolutely should remove **all** hardware from anything you throw out. Bill Stephan Kansas City, MO (816)803-2469 William Stephan -----Original Message----- From: "Barry Levine"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 8/7/06 2:31:09 PM To: "blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com"<blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Recovering from PRS (Pack Rat Syndrome) Hi Folks, Well, through the humor, I've actually gotten some good ideas from the list... At least, some good thoughts. I am, indeed, going to rent a dumpster, and just throw out most of what seems like junk to me. Though, the notion that I'll need, within the next day or week, that which I've just tossed strikes real fear in me. I like the thought of accumulating space, instead of stuff. I don't know about anyone else, but with so much clutter, lack of room to move around the workshop, and all sorts of stuff the purpose of which I never knew or have forgotten, I find my workshop to be a foreign and anxiety provoking place... Certainly not what it should be to me. A large part of the problem is other people. Once upon a time, BC (before children), my "nobody-allowed-in-my-workshop" rule was obeyed. Then, as the kids got older, there was no such thing as a "Dad only" workshop. So, the kids invaded. Once the mote had been breached, the drawbridge was left down for friends, neighbors, etc. I caved, I crumbled, and somewhere along the line, my workshop became a community workshop. That has to stop. And, I don't care if it makes me look like a selfish jerk. The workshop of a person who is blind needs to be left to his/her own organization of it. I'm not lessening the impact of my own pack ratitis, but that pack ratitis has been severely exacerbated by the invasion of my workshop by others. The simple rule of "clean up and put things back where you find them" has never been adhered to in this workshop. I'm going to put my foot down... 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