3-13-11

As you can see I changed my blog.

I don't know what was wrong

with google earlier

on my other blog but I could

not get it corrected.

And believe me I tried everything!

This is not the same blog!

Notice the title is different.

It is NOT

Thinking Outside The Box Inside Columbus

It is NOW

Outside The Box Inside Columbus.

The other blog is still available for

viewing though.

12:00pm

I am in my, what I call, Spring Weeding mood.
No, that doesn't mean cleaning the yard.
It means weeding out more crap from
this house. This morning I started on my
hallway linen closet. I went through
and weeded out extra blankets,
sheets and pillow cases.
This is going into the donation box
for mom's church. I put any matching
sheet set I kept
(flat sheet, pillow cases & fitted sheet)
into a matching pillow case.
I then started to move all my kitchen pantry
things into the linen closet.
Then when I start laundry today
I will be working on bringing up the other
pantry stuff stored in the basement.
Another thing I thought about with
the linen closet is that I could put
a keyed lock on that door to keep
kids out. They have a tendency to snack
all hours of the day so by doing this they
can be monitored a little closer with what
they are eating!

..
I am considering downsizing my
stockpile to getting only things
that are food. I can't see stockpiling
shampoos, toothpaste and such.
It'll take us years to go through it
and I don't have the space for it!

I took some extra stuff in our

pantry that I know we'll never used

and packed it up in a laundry basket.

There's a guy at Tony's work that

always asks for some of his lunch

or if he has anything he could eat.

Always says he doesn't have any money.

(always asks to borrow money-

we don't have money to borrow though

so he asks everyone else)

He must know I have a bag of lunch

goods in the back of Tony's truck

for those days I don't send in leftovers.

I know Tony's getting to the point

he feels uncomfortable eating around him.

At first I didn't know what

to do with all this extra food

then I thought of Tony's coworker.

I'll fix him I thought as I packed

up a large laundry basket to the top

with all sorts of goods.  Might even

throw in some extra toiletries also.

Even though the guy is annoying

and everyone wonders where he spends

his money that he never has any

(thank goodness he is single),

I will be the good guy and

do my good deed.

I am also considering canceling our
Sunday newspaper to save money.
I'll still get coupons from mom
and from The Bag and Tony's work.
So why not just cut the expense of
the paper out altogether. That's money
that could be going towards a doctor bill.
If we really want a paper for the ads we can
go down to the gas station and get one.

3:15PM

Just returned from dropping off
some donations then went to Micro Center.
We've been watching for laptop cooler fans
to go on sale. An average price for them
is around $20, even at Big Lots.
Laptops tend to overheat so getting
a fan is highly recommended.

We got 2 coolers. One was $20 on sale
for $6.99. I also found one that was
regularly $30 marked down to $6.96.
They run off a usb port and plug
into your computer. It comes with the
usb wire.


We also stopped in Kroger to get
some pop, milk and bread.
I've waited all week to see if
mom could get bread at the senior
center and they didn't have any
so had to go buy some.
I still found some in the marked
down area at Kroger.
.49 cents for regular and .80
cents for whole wheat multigrain.
We also picked up a 10lb bag of
bird seed for $2.50.
Plan to put the bird feeder back on
the shepherd's hook in front of
our living room window.
Had another bird fly into the window
again this morning. I think this
is the 4-5th time in the last couple weeks.

8:15pm

Man, this day has flown by from

the time change.

I got my pantry closet done,

laundry has one more load to go

and I started weeding crap out 

of our bedroom including some of

my clothes.  Ok, by the time

I got done it looked like about

half of them, lol.

Once I'm in this mode I go full steam. 

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10:00pm


Outta steam.  My hips hurting me now.
Feels like bones rubbing together
on the left side of my tailbone.
Getting old sucks!


I got one more load of laundry
in the dryer and it looks like
it's gonna stay there til tomorrow.


How bad have you got it
when you tape your broken hangers
back together?