IN MY SHOES: Yule Tidy Up – Or Else!
In a column for Townhall.com, Rich Galen, a senior adviser to the Fred Thompson campaign, argues that, “Spring cleaning … has nothing on the tumult of tidying which occurs as Christmas approaches”:
It all has to do with MY MOTHER IS COMING TO MY HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS!
Substitute BROTHER, SISTER, NEIGHBOR, BOSS, or any of the many flavors of IN-LAW and the theory works equally well. …
I was informed, as this past weekend loomed, that it might be a good idea to "do something about the den."
Push out the front wall of the house and make it larger? Buy a 72" flat screen HD television? Install a slot in the wall behind the couch so the Dominos guy can just slide the pizza in and I can push the money out? Install a bathroom so I won't have to go all the way up one flight of stairs to the main floor during half time?
As you well know, the "something" which was to be done was to straighten it up. And when I say straighten it up I mean move, Remove, dispose of, discard, toss, and stack the many important items which have accumulated in there since last Christmas.
To make her point, she placed two large plastic tubs in the middle of the den floor - or where the den floor would have been had it not been covered with the stuff to be placed into the tubs.
When I say two large plastic tubs, I mean these were the size of boxcars.
And I filled them both.
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