I recently had a conversation with my cousin Sweet T that cracked me up. For a bit of background, she lives in a 110+-year-old home in Pennsylvania that has an unfinished attic. A Light and a Bed, Bathroom, etc In The Attic. She has been dreaming of an attic that looks like this:
A Light and a Bed, Bathroom, etc In The Attic
Or what about this rustic gem?
With a closet like this on the other end.
But truthfully the wee kid, Miss M, would probably lay claim to the unused space.
She likes bright colors.
My favorite attic bath still belongs to Iris in the movie “The Holiday”.
So back to Sweet T’s attic. She thought she may have had a squirrel issue and really wanted to start clearing out the unused space. She and my cousin E decided to tackle the cleaning out last week.
He asked, “What is in all these boxes?”
She said, “I can’t really remember.”
She then said to me “You know how you get a great box in the mail and you think: I am going to save this to reuse.”
“Yes”, I said.
She continued “Well, I looked in the first box and…it was empty. Then I looked in the second box and… it was empty. We kept going until we filled our entire recycling bin with boxes and started eyeballin’ our neighbor’s empty bin.
I had to ask, “Just how many of the boxes in your attic were empty?” (Because I have seen that attic.)
She replied, “Well, let’s just say I could win an award.”
But I told her she was second place at best.
Because these are two images of what my garage is currently filled with.
I asked my neighbors in the cul de sac of kindness to save their boxes for me and boy did I get exactly what I asked for.
Laura
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