Well, we’ve been spending some of our evenings cleaning out the basement. It really is amazing the amount of crap that we have been carting around for (at least) 5 1/2 years.
We’re nearly done and it is amazing how big our basement is. And clean! Maybe when we’re done we’ll take some pictures.
I have been trying to be good and down-size some of my stuff, and have succeeded for the most part. I do have 2-3 boxes of “keepsakes” – but I’ve gotten rid of some of the stuff, and at least the stuff that I did keep is now in nice plastic water-tight boxes.
One thing that got the axe today was a copy of a Mormon “good one” from my mission called the Book of Lemuel. I thought to myself, “Self, there is approximately a 500% chance that this is on the Internet somewhere”.
Another thing that didn’t make the cut was my good ol’ Dan Miller for Council sign.
But it got a pic for posterity.
The background, for those of you who don’t know. Back in the day (I’d say 1993 or so), a gentleman named Paul D. Miller was running for North Olmsted city council. As is typical for folks running for office, he put signs around town urging people to vote for him.
I forget who had the idea first, but my friends and I ummm borrowed some of his signs. We figured out that if you took the D from his middle initial, the a from Paul, and turned the u upside down, you could spell Dan Miller for council.
I put one of these signs in my front yard, and probably my favorite memory is that one of my mom’s friends (Julie Jakuszeit or whatever her last name is maybe?) called up my mom after seeing the sign and said “I didn’t know Dan was old enough to run for council!?!?” Good times…good times…
As Carolyn pointed out while we were cleaning, this sign once held the position of honor above our bed (on Fenwick). Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
I would also like to point out that I got all the way back upstairs and realized I had taken a picture of the Paul D. Miller side and had to go back downstairs