Days 173-187: Frames

Another big batch. Lots and lots of picture frame. Black ones, wood ones, pewter ones, enamel ones...for awhile, Kohl's frame section was my happy place. One frame was a fishbowl with a 1.5" round opening. I thought that was useful, I guess.

And yes, I wear this gray shirt pretty much every day of my life.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 172: Tint

Do you know how much a good tint job costs? A few hundred bucks.

Do you know how much a good tint job does not cost? $2.99.

That should have been a red flag not to buy this peel-and-stick tint, which lasted about three days before a corner started peeling off, and then about three more minutes before Danger ripped it off completely.

We didn't bother applying the other sheets.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 171: Bucket

Damn you, Target. I go in for shampoo and end up spending $96, and it's because of things like this bucket. I'm like, "$9.99?! For that cute bucket?! I'm sure I can do SOMETHING with it! I'll have backyard parties and use it as a fun ice bucket! I'll plant flowers in it! I'll take newborn photos with it!"

Two years later the verdict is: I will do none of the above. It's become a toy for Danger, who likes to unearth it when I'm not looking and throw it across the room, which makes the same noise as 40 psychos with lead pipes breaking into my house, or at least that's what it sounds like when I'm not expecting it.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 151-170: Movies, Movies, Movies!

I'm exercising my right to lump multiple items into a single post. Do you REALLY want to see individual photos of bad movies? Hopefully not. Plus we need to catch up. Plus, as bad as these movies are, it was hard to part with them. What if we suddenly get the urge to re-watch Dude, Where's My Car? What then?

Here's the box o' cinematic masterpieces:

And the contents:

DVD

• MISS CONGENIALITY: I love Sandra Bullock, but this is on cable like 27 times a week.
  
• LETHAL WEAPON 2: Ugh.
  
• MATCH POINT: Didn't even watch it.
  
• THE WHOLE NINE YARDS: I really like movies like this.
  
• THE WHOLE TEN YARDS: Enough to buy the crappy sequels!
  
• THE CODE? or maybe it's called CODE 51?: Didn't even watch it.
  
• FREE TIBET: Some concert thing. Never watched this one either.
  
• three workout DVDs (as if!)
  
• SCREAM 2: Can't watch this without sleeping with the lights on for a year afterwards
  
• TWO WEEKS NOTICE: Hugh Grant is delightful!
  

VHS:

• DUDE WHERE'S MY CAR: This is not a terrible movie.
  
• HIGH FIDELITY: The book is better. And I rarely say that! Except...
  
• WHERE THE HEART IS: The book is better.
  
• ALI G INDAHOUSE: Unwatchable. And I love Ali G!
  
• DOGMA: One of my faves. Bought it on DVD. Frequent quote around our house is, "What are you going to do, hit me with a fish?"
  
• CAST AWAY: Never even unwrapped this because I caught it on cable.
  
• RUSH HOUR 2: Super funny. But only once.
  
• DETROIT ROCK CITY: I don't remember anything about this movie except Eddie Furlong. And I barely even remember him.
  

DESTINATION: The DVD's went to Tunes (and netted a whopping $4), the VHS's went to Goodwill.

Day 147-150: Wall Art

You know your wall art is classy when you post it on Facebook for free and get crickets -- obviously because your friends are too intimidated to hang such classy artwork on their walls for fear of looking snobbish. Right? That's why, right?

We've got an Ansel Adams poster, a fairy poster (perfect for grown-ups!), abstract art from Target (note the way the fake plastic frame, painted to look like wood, is ripping apart at the seam), and a collage frame that's actually cute except we couldn't figure out how to fit all our friends into one frame, so we just left it empty.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Scrambling to catch up...

Okay, so the work-life balance has been nonexistent this month, and the blog has fallen way behind. Just added about 12 more posts, but today is really day 172, so clearly we still have some catching up to do...but we'll finish taking pictures and uploading new posts and eventually get back on track! For real!

Day 146: BMW Emblem

In 1999, George bought an old BMW, drove like a total jerkface for about two weeks, and then crashed it headfirst into a tree. I don't miss that car. He kept the emblem to remind him to always put collision coverage on a car before driving it headfirst into a tree.

We wanted to upload a photo of the wrecked Beemer, but we can't find it on our hard drive, so instead, here's a photo of George breakdancing.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 145: Baby Jumpers

These are adorable, and barely worn. Our big ol' babies outgrew them too fast!

DESTINATION: Baby Brady, our new homeboy up north.

Day 144: The Pen Is Mightier

We have a slight problem with pens. We just can't bring ourselves to get rid of them. Even when they stop working, we're like, "But in an emergency, we could just etch our message onto the paper..." But we finally cleaned house.

I am so tempted to count this as 30 things and get almost-caught-up. But I won't.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 143: SanDisk 32GB CompactFlash

I never win anything. I don't think I've won anything since a baby pool in 1987. (Thanks Tori. I think it was you.) But at the PDN Photo Expo last year, I won a 32GB memory card, which is actually a really big prize! Wooohooooo!!!

I love winning things!

But I love posting things on eBay even more.

DESTINATION: eBay. Cha-ching!

Day 142: Expired Makeup

I pains me to count these as one day -- makeup is expensive when you're not looting the beauty closet at your office! Ugh.

Anyway. It's all from pre-2007. Time to let it go.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 141: NSFW Sticker

This sticker came as a freebie with a book called (appropriately enough) Fuck this Book. It's actually a really funny mildly amusing book -- they take these stickers and put them strategically over signs like, "No parking on off-ramp."

The book came out in 2005. I know know why I've held onto the sticker this long. I can't even find the book. But either way, it's probably best to get rid of it before Danger learns to read.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 140: Harajuku Box

I went to Lord & Taylor to buy the Harajuku Lovers "G" perfume, which smells like sunscreen and is pretty much the best thing ever. (While the perfume shares a name with hubby-G, which seems cute, he actually can't stand the smell of coconut and I have to secretly wear it when he's not around.)

So I went to buy it, and the woman said, "Oh, it's buy one get one free." Yes!! Then she said, "And there's a free gift with your purchase." OMG, YESSSSSS!!! She handed me this box and I thought I was getting the free set of mini-samples...turns out it was just the empty box from the mini-samples. Weird freebie. But anyway, I thought it was a cool box, and saved it to hold random junk like decks of cards, mechanical pencils, stickers, etc.

Then the boys found it, emptied it, and destroyed it.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 139: The Parrot

If you've been to one of our pirate parties, you've probably said horrible things to this talking parrot. He's been a fixture on our porch for about four years now, but he's getting faded and yucky, and the speaker thingy has been ruined by the elements, so now everything he says sounds like, "Blrpk kaaa."

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 138: The Dip

For the first 10 years of our relationship, I'm pretty sure George didn't read a single book (which is kind of funny if you know me). Then one day, in 2007, he announced that he would be willing to read a new businessy-self-help book called The Dip. I ran out and bought it at Hudson News the next day.

He read it in about an hour and said, "Wow, that sucked."

All is not lost, though. Last year I finally got him to read not one, but TWO more books -- Tim Ferriss' Four-Hour Workweek and Four-Hour Body. He liked them both, mainly because they. Are. AWESOME.

DESTINATION: Book Swap Cafe.