From a book(Latest Jokes in town by Alfredo C. Nem Singh) Today is a turning point in my life. From this day forward, I am not adding one single thing to my collection of possessions. The simple fact of the matter is that everything's full. My two-car garage long ago passed the point where I could get one car, let alone two, into it. Now I can't even open the garage door from the driveway side and walk through it to the door leading to the kitchen. I have to go around. When the oil-burner man came to give the furnace its annual physical, he said I couldn't have all that stuff piled so close to it. That's easy for him to say, but where would he put it? The four kids have all left home, but they didn't leave home with much of their stuff. In closets everywhere there is evidence of the 18 or 20 years they spent in the house. I love my kids, but when they come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas I'm going to sneak out to their cars at night while they're sleeping and fill the trunks with old sneakers, small clothes and school papers of theirs that they've been storing at home. I'm going to stuff the cute, misshapen clay ashtrays they made in Miss Evans"s pottery class into the crevices beneath the front seats of their cars. My life runneth over, and I'm going to do something about it. I solemnly swear that if I bring something new in the front door, I'm going to throw something out the back door. If I buy a new tool, I'm going to throw out an old one. If I buy a new shirt, I'm going to throw out an old shirt. I am no longer going to save the brown bags that groceries come in. I am going to cast out coffee cans, rubber bands, matchbooks, broken toasters, old snow tires and perhaps, just perhaps, my stack of old Life magazines... I am clearing out my life, beginning today... tomorrow the very latest. Hope you liked it!
