I got my upstairs about 1/3 of the way clean!! YEAH!! I am still putting things away from when we flooded. It is to the point that I am thinking if it isn't away or used yet do I really need it??  I am reading a new blog where they are not shopping for one year. I have donated a pick truck load of crap so far. The goal is for me to toss one black trash bag of stuff and donate one 2x2 box every week. I am hoping to finish the downsizing we have been doing. I get into this mode like 3 or 4 times a year but never seem to last more then a month or so. So I am really trying this time. I am still sticking with my diet and have actually lost 10 lbs now!! So I figure its time to ad on the house again. Besides if I do move its easier to have less crap to take with. The kids asked if we could just buy and RV and live in that for a year or so and travel all over. They suggested putting everything into storage and just going. We honestly considered it for about 4 hours. It would be ok for a few weeks but I can see the kids getting stir crazy after that.

I was messing around surfing and ran across this story. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. I am still snickering about it!!

The next time someone asks you a dumb question wouldn’t you like to respond like this?…..
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Athena the wonder dog at Wal-Mart and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an
elephant? So since I’m retired, with little to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again.
Although I probably shouldn’t, because I’d ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified , she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s rear and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!