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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 25, 2020 23:24:16 GMT
tabitha, I wish I could, but the way Proboards is set up, if I create a board someone has to start a thread to open the board. After that, there's no way to keep other people from creating threads, which would mean the original long running thread would get lost. Here's what I can do, I can start a "miscellaneous" thread, and make it a sticky at the top of the General Conversation board. That way it won't get lost, but still be general. I'll even name it after you.
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Post by tabitha on Jan 25, 2020 23:38:30 GMT
I have five cats. Okay, here is the kind of posting I have in mind. I would like for you all to see it, it is entertaining actually, we know it all anyway, so what is there to discuss..
you find something, nah, do not start a thread for it, toss it in that drawer.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 25, 2020 23:46:45 GMT
tabitha, Nope, look at the top of the General Discussion main page.
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Post by themotherhen on Jan 26, 2020 8:43:58 GMT
Ahem! Apparently nobody else has more than one drawer like that...
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 26, 2020 12:25:03 GMT
Ahem! Apparently nobody else has more than one drawer like that...
Hey, they named Yellowstone National Park after General Yellowstone, didn't they?
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Post by Tricky Grama on Jan 26, 2020 15:48:36 GMT
I'll take the eyebrow pencil...
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Post by tabitha on Jan 26, 2020 16:48:25 GMT
I don't see how you can live without a catch all drawer. Mine is in the shoe cabinet. Which is to the right of the front door when you first step in. There is a hallway because I do not like stepping into the living room when you enter the house. the door to the living room is to the left, next to a full length mirror on the wall. /the shoe cabinet has two sections and two drawers. One for DH, one for me. Someone puts something on the cabinet, it is in the way, someone comes and you quickly put it in the drawer. Actually some things are meant to be there, the hairbrush and a brush to brush off your coat. There also is a version of the bermuda triangel in there, things fall in and are never seen again. Esp. when you look for them.
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Post by DEKE on Jan 26, 2020 18:16:28 GMT
I don't see how you can live without a catch all drawer. Understood, but it is "A" catch all drawer, not two, not three. DW is a packrat; it makes her happy to have all her stuff. I am a neatnik; it makes me happy to get rid of clutter. It's been a challenge for us our entire marriage. She has boxes of stuff she packed when she gave up teaching, when our daughter was on the way...25 years ago. We've moved those boxes without unpacking them, four times. She no longer has any desire to return teaching, but she wants to hold on that material just in case.
We argue about it on occasion, but I'm sure we'll have it worked out to a mutually agreeable solution within another 30 or 40 years.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 26, 2020 21:21:25 GMT
As I'm typing I can hear things hitting the bottom of a trash can, my wife is sorting through her sewing cabinet, getting rid of things she sees no reason to keep.
We don't have a junk drawer. Everything has a place, or it doesn't stay. I admit to being a bit obsessive-compulsive about things being in their place, but I blame it on being basically lazy. I hate spending time and effort hunting for something, so I put it where it belongs when I'm done with it.
Not to say we don't have memorabilia, a few small boxes from long gone days. Heck, I still have my Boy Scout shirt, with the blood stains my mother couldn't get out (long story, suffice it to say I didn't need the shirt anymore).
If you were to see the back section of our old milking barn you'd think it was a jumbled up mess, but that's just because everything is in totes and 5 gallon buckets. Everything is together by category and marked as to contents.
I'm not hard to live with, as long as the person I'm living with doesn't mind me walking past a table and squaring up a book.
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Post by daw on Jan 27, 2020 1:21:05 GMT
I have an everything drawer. I had nice........ I put everything in glass jars. No more mice and everything is catagorized. Actually I know where things are!!!!
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Post by Johnny D on Jan 27, 2020 1:37:59 GMT
I would like to have my own sticky thread for ...
Off the wall posting
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Post by David! on Jan 27, 2020 1:47:54 GMT
Mine could be lunatic ravings of a southern alcoholic. It would be charming.
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Post by themotherhen on Jan 27, 2020 8:30:22 GMT
Mine could be lunatic ravings of a southern alcoholic. It would be charming. Ah, but will you mark the twain properly? That is the question.
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Post by joebill on Jan 13, 2021 7:29:13 GMT
Speaking of organ donors, I are one. It was one of those old ones that had a keyboard like a piano, but operated from an electric fan blowing through ports when you depressed the keys. They were mostly viewed as kid's toys, but sounded a bit like the real thing. We gave it to the salvation army when Janet got a real keyboard for her music. The gal at the salvation army dropoff place agreed that made me an organ donor, but said she could not indicate that on my driver's license. I get NO respect.. ......Joe
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Post by ceresone on Oct 3, 2022 21:52:05 GMT
i have a pregnant junk drawer. it must be since it keeps giving birth to another, then another then...
dont laugh, its true. every so often, i dump all the drawers into a box and store in the garage. then, when the little dickens learn to walk, they all come bck to their home in the kitchen..
and--i live alone..
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