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Other family members don t always react Deadline is noon on Friday.
enthusiastically to the suggestion, so the inspired
parent appeals to their higher motives. "Wouldn't it
be nice to give away the things we don't need anymore
to people who do need them?" No one is persuaded,
partly because they think they still NEED pretty
much everything, and what they don't need, they
WANT.
She tries another tack. She tells them she read that
Americans spend more than 60 hours each year
trying to find belongings in their homes. She points
out that it might be easier to find what they need if
they didn't have to wade through so much of what
they don't need. "Just think, another 60 hours to
play."
"But," the children argue, "we won't have anything
left to play WITH."
She appeals to their baser motives. She suggests
they sell everything they don't need--or want--at a
garage sale and make some extra cash. "To buy more,"
says a child. And that settles it. They begin sorting
their possessions optimistically, dollar signs in their
eyes. But then they come across items they'd
forgotten they even owned, and they remember with
a pang how special these once were. They recall the
adventure they were on when they bought the talking
trout or the kindness of the person who gave them
the Mickey Mouse waffle maker. How can they
possibly part with it? Belongings that have been
under the bed covered with dust bunnies are
transferred to places of honor on crowded shelves.
Someone remembers reading that a Ponytail
Brunette Barbie made in 1959 is now worth more
than $10;000. Suddenly a slightly balding doll with
pen marks for jewelry becomes the COLLEGE
FUND! They forget that Barbie was still in her box
hermetically sealed. This doll has been lying in the
corner of the moldy basement for four years. Still,
they wrap her in tissue paper and carefully place her
on the top shelf of the linen closet.
Many other potential giveaways are foiled by those
five little words: "I might need it someday." The
instigator of the cleanup begins to panic. "If it was so
DARN USEFUL, why has it been in the crawl space
covered in spider webs since we moved in TWELVE
YEARS AGO?"
The finder counters, "If I'd known we had it, I'd
have been using it." This is how power cords for
unknown devices, parts for long-lost gadgets, jars
without lids, and lids without bowls find their way
back into the cupboards and onto the shelves. At least
they're up off the floor--for now.
Other things are too important to throw away.
What if the IRS wants to see the receipt for the
computer keyboard purchased in 2010? Or what if
the current owner of the car they sold five years ago
wants to see the maintenance schedule? They decide
to keep them for now--to throw away later.
By now the reorganization effort has completely
degenerated. When the parents aren't looking, the
children snatch broken toys from the trash. And when
the children aren't looking, the parents grab the
children's discarded toddler toys and tattered baby
blankets from the giveaway box--for the grandkids.
In the end, all the hours, sweat, and arguments
result in one bag of trash and one small stack in the
middle of the living room. Unfortunately, it's not
nearly enough for a garage sale. What to do?
They'll store it until there's more.
Dorothy Rosby is a syndicated columnist and the
author of several humor books, including I Used to
Think I Was Not That Bad and Then I Got to Know
Me Better.
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