An interesting aspect of German life is with junk. Twice a year they assign a different day for each village to dejunk, and people there put out all their unneeded things on the side of the road. Then anyone is allowed to pick through it (one mans trash is another mans treasure...) then the truck comes to pick it up. I assume they take it to the dump. Who knows. They should just haul it to Poland since the Polish vans have been trolling our neighborhood the last few days for things.
Last night (after the kids were in bed) Günter and I dejunked our garage. Good grief! I can't believe how much stuff we put out. Günter was funny because he tried to nicely display some of it (what he thought was the good stuff) for people to come and take. The things I thought had some value I am making another pile to take to the base thrift store.
The main problem it caused for me is that I got so wound up that I couldn't sleep. I started going over in my head how I want to dejunk the freezer room and the heating room. Next spring for junkin days I promised Günter I would dejunk the attic. I don't look forword to that job!
But it feels good to be a little freer from stuff!
Posted by Krista at September 28, 2006 06:49 AM"The main problem it caused for me is that I got so wound up that I couldn't sleep. I started going over in my head how I want to dejunk the freezer room and the heating room."
Yes, yes, yes! I hate that lying awake figuring out how, if you could only clean out this, everything would be perfect. And then wanting to get up and do it, but you can't because you have to sleep because they'll be kids to take care of tomorrow. And then tomorrow comes around and you've either forgotton all those perfect plans or else you no longer have the energy/inspiration to do them, because you're chasing the kids around.
Posted by: Meira at September 28, 2006 03:23 PM