AAGGHHHHHHHH

Many years ago, I put into storage a bunch of stuff until I got what I considered a permanent place. I retrieved it only to find out I could have repurchased all of it and then some, with what I paid in storage fees for 4 years.

As usual, I mixed up Tolstoy and Trotsky, and assumed you had been trying to find a way to get rid of an ice axe… it’s plausible, does one really need an ice axe in Atlanta any more than in Mexico City? And yet that’s the sort of thing one finds when moving.

I have no idea who this belongs to TCOAN! I’ve never seen that before in my life. I swear!

Leo Tolstoy also had it right when it came to families, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Yes, I have read both War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

On the plus side moving forces you to part with things you do not need.

“Honey, do we really need to have four fuzzy toilet seat covers that force the toilet seat to fall down when I am taking a piss?”

My guess is that the five useful things are a grill and four lawn chairs.

#3, the mecha fan boy in me respects what you posted. Long may Rick Hunter live!

#5, or bottles of whiskey, tequila, vodka, mezcal and gin. Those would also be very useful during a move. That reminds me that my bottle collection is getting rather low.

Thanks!

you don’t want to unpack this box, just throw it in your new trash can as-is

-everyone that has ever helped me move

Survival of the Fittist Dept:

I thought the picture was of Chazz Darwin, not some Russian dude.

Moving again? I thought OS and TCOAN bought a home a few months ago?

Orson’s five useful things:

(1) Thai boxing gloves that saved his life from Beano Cook attacks
(2) Case of quinine
(3) Laptop
(4) Copy of Mark Helprin’s “Memoir from Antproof Case”
(5) Combination Bowie knife and bottle opener

The key to getting rid of useless/worthless stuff is to write the following on the box in capital letters [underlined alot]:

EXTREMELY VALUABLE. GUARD WITH YOUR LIFE!

Accidentally place the box by the curb.

You got a burn permit for that, boy?

I feel your pain. People don’t understand why I always leave my door unlocked in the ATL. I want all my stuff to just go away.

I had to go with my fiance to register for wedding presents this weekend. Random painful thoughts:

1. There is not one thing on that list that I want.
2. I will immediately need a bigger house after the wedding.
3. Who will be responsible for packing that shit up every time we move? Yep.
4. I own two cutting boards, and she owns two cutting boards. We are registered for two more cutting boards.
5. If all goes according to plan, we will be the owners of our own pizza baking stone (Crate & Barrell – $65). I think the thing is heavy enough that if I tied it securely to my feet and jumped in the deep end, it would be over quickly.

We did the registry, including fancy AND casual china, and you know where all that shit is now? In my mother-in-law’s attic. Plus, both the crystal AND china companies we got gifts from filed for bankruptcy, so we won’t even use it for fear of breaking something that is, in fact, now irreplaceable. Oh, did I mention that I’m STILL inheriting my mother’s wedding china on top of that?

Fuck, I don’t care if it’s tacky…my advice to engaged couples is ASK FOR MONEY. Either that or put a 52" Vizio on the registry.

I was driving through Druid Hills over the weekend and I happened to come across a house with a shit ton of shit on the front lawn with a big sign that said: JUST TAKE IT.

Speaking as someone who moved interstate and into a new time zone, burn everything last thing you own.

Except the alcohol and cigars.

You will be a happier person for it.

Re #14: Even if the companies are gone, the stuff is not irrreplaceable, and, since you have it, you may as well use it.

http://www.replacements.com/

(Found the site years ago and was able to replace all the broken pieces in my mom’s 40-year-old set.)