Too funny!! :D

Although, I'm with Wendybeth on this one - make him a slide. :snap:

No, it's stuff we need and want. We just haven't finished fixing up the office enough to unpack it and organize it.

Personally, I can’t understand throwing stuff out just because you haven’t used it for a few months. To me that’s just as silly as never getting rid of anything at all. By your criteria, we should all throw out our holiday decorations – they only get used once a year, after all!

I have a few boxes, but they're books. Some of them I can let go of, some are things I need to keep. They may still be in boxes after 3 years, but that doesn't mean I haven't been in and out of those boxes in the meantime. I just don't have enough bookshelf space.

But this isn't my "forever" residence. I'm in a somewhat crappy apartment. If I have books in boxes in an office in a real home I own for 3+ years, then I'll be thinking more seriously about dumping (or finally having custom shelving built).

Actually, the rule I use is usually a year (and in pracitce really works out to longer than that) and there are exceptions (we haven't used what few Christmas decorations we have since 2001 but we still have them). But after a move, if I haven't used it in six months I think it is generally safe for me to assume I probably shouldn't have moved it in the first place.

All of this only kicks in once the official storage locations are overflowing. If everything can properly be stored away then I don't really care (which is why we still have the Christmas decoratoins; they're inside a coffee table where I don't really have anything to put in there anyway).

I have a five year rule. And it applies to throwing things out before the move, not for unpacking.

Ok, I have to laugh at this. My Christmas decorations are in dozens of large boxes, each the size of a coffee table.

Have you seen Christmas Vacation? They don't call me Sparky for nothin'!:cool: And yes, you need the sunglasses when you come over!;)

I have a lot of family heirloom kinds of things that I can't safely display at the moment. I will someday, but for now boxes are the safest places for them. But they're still accessible, and I still have moments when I go through the boxes, look at things, and remember. Which reminds me that I need to take a look at my grandmother's wedding dress and see what preservation steps I can take now - I haven't checked it out since she died.

The good news is that the 3rd time was the charm and Munchkin has successfully figured out how to get down the stairs without accidentally sliding to his doom.

The bad news is that the 3rd time was the charm and Munchkin has successfully figured out how to get down the stairs purposefully scaring the crap out of his mommy and daddy by making dare-devil leaps from height.

Meanwhile, I went through nearly 2 hours of hold/getting cutoff/getting brushed off hell with Time Warner last night only to finally learn that all I had to do was push one button to fix my internet connect (why...WHY would a cable modem have a "Don't connect to the internet" button?!?!?).

Because they're evil!

Munchkins is a stunt-bunny.:)