i'm married to a pack rat and i'm massively anti-clutter. he saves everything and i throw everything away. it's an interesting marriage, but we make it work. recently, i was excited that he started cleaning out the barn -- no nagging, just spontaneous cleaning. woohoo!
a few years ago HomeBase went out of business and had an extreme clearance sale. Hubby bought all sorts of things that he might need some day. I bit my tongue and stacked the stuff at the back of the barn.
our pool pump died this morning. $499 to replace it! ugh! so much for tiling the bathroom this week. Clean pool is more important than replacing the carpet in the bathroom. *le sigh*
Hubby shows up at the house with two (count them, TWO!) pool pumps in thrashed, very dusty boxes. You guess it! He had purchased them for $5 each at the HomeBase clearance sale. AND...one of them fits exactly. AND...it actually works!
and, so while I'm excited to have saved $499, I'm not exactly thrilled to have his pack rat tendencies reinforced. He'll never finish cleaning up the barn now.
i'll choose to file this under a blessing.....but that might change if the barn starts overflowing into other storage areas. *grin*
My husband is a bit of a pack rat too. In fact, we have two storage units, and they are mostly for his stuff. Drives me crazy!!
ReplyDeleteI love when that kind of stuff happens! Too bad it doesn't happen every once in a while tho. Never fails--once you get rid of something you're sorry that you did--us packrats are at least! LOL
ReplyDeleteYour sweater might be appropriate today after all.....weatherbug forecasts a high of 69 today. :)
Ack---the 2nd sentence in my post was sposed to read, "Too bad it doesn't happen more than every once in a while tho..."
ReplyDeleteThis is what I get for trying to operate on just one cup of coffee! LOL
HA HA!!! Justification for us pack rats!!lol Now, see? If you'd cleaned all that out and thrown it away, it would have cost you $499! Sorry, when I see a pack rat succeed, it's exciting.. since we have SUCH a bad rep..lol
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love a bargain? now you can get your tile.
ReplyDeleteLOL, but I'm glad you had TWO different pump sizes on hand. :) Hey, love the new "might enjoy this" widget!
ReplyDelete@angie: isn't it a fun widget? i saw it on a couple of blogs last night and just had to try it out.
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ReplyDeleteGreat story. I am glad the pool was saved! And at such a bargain.
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