This is a story about stuff. My car and the stuff I carry back and forth from the house to the car, and from the car to the house everyday. I always seem to have my hands full as I make that walk. Nay – overflowing. “Why?” I ask myself. “Why am I always carrying so much stuff???”
So yesterday I decided to take to closer look of said “stuff” to see what was really going on in that car. I present to you a list of items I carried from my car into my house as I arrived home from work last night;
- my lovely Golla laptop bag that contained: a laptop, an agenda book that is way too large (note to self – get a smaller one for 2011), and a few other small office related items (access card, zip drive, bills to be paid, etc). Okay – this kinda stuff is all perfectly understandable.
- reusable shopping bag that contained; 2 packs of boy sized boxer shorts, 2 packs of boy sized socks, 2 packs of boy sized “wife beater” undershirts, children’s allergy medicine and a box of snack sized Smart Food (yes, I understand lunch-hours are for eating, but I prefer to use mine for shopping).
- a 7″ Sankotu knife. Don’t ask. Also – don’t mess with me when I’m in my car.
- 3 hardcover books I intended to mail to my giveaway winner Mimi except the line up at the post office was about 20 people deep and I had lunch-hour shopping to do and only 1 hour to do it in (sorry Mimi – I’ll get those in the mail for you today).
- My purse. And let’s not even get into what all I carry in there. That would be a very long post in itself.
- reusable lunch bag that contained: the remnants of leftover chicken stirfry that I hoovered down at my desk before heading to the mall for my shopping excursion (frankly, I love me some leftovers, but this wasn’t verygood, if you’re asking).
- 3 days worth of mail. I don’t know about you international people, but in my neighbourhood, the postman/person doesn’t deliver to each house. Oh no! That’s just too much work. Instead we have the Canada Post SuperBox (or StupidBox or NotSoSuperBox) at the end of the street where everyone has to go, with their little key, and check their own private “lock box” every few days.
No wonder my hands were so full! THAT is a lot of stuff! WTH?!
There are so many questions regarding this post - Am I alone or do you always have a handful too? Do you like my laptop bag? Are you curious as to why I bought my sons “wife beaters”? Are you more concerned about the knife? If your name is Mimi, are you pissed I haven’t mailed your books yet? Are you as sad about the crappy leftovers as I am? Do you get mail delivered right to your house?
Okay – pick a question and get answering.
20 Responses to “So Much Stuff”
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September 1st, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I know where you’re coming from, although I recently bought a new laptop bag that will take my laptop and purse so I don’t need to carry an extra – still there’s a load of crap in there.
I feel bad your leftovers weren’t great, I’m also a leftover fan, it’s so disppointing when they’re not the same the next day though. I’m trying to work out what “wife beaters” are – a kind of vest?
September 1st, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I have a habit of leaving stuff in the car instead of carrying it inside. I always have at least one sweater, a pair of flip flops and/or sneakers, leftover stuff from errands (currently a bunch of clothes to be donated), various packaging either from foodstuffs or something pretty I took out because I couldn’t wait the 5 minuted until I got home, and a few half-drunk beverage containers. I feel like I need to clean my car now…
September 1st, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I’m still laughing at the knife. I will not cut in front of you!
September 1st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
My issue is not so much the amount of stuff I carry into the house as the amount of stuff I leave in my car. I often change into flip flops when leaving the office so I probably have 3 or 4 pairs of heels sitting in the front/back seats. There’s books friends have returned to me or ones I need to give them back, only now I don’t know which ones are which. I also had a broken DVD player in the back for over 2 years!
I am curious about the knife though!
September 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
OMG, I am SO not mad that you haven’t sent the books yet! LOL I spent a half hour at the damn Post Office yesterday and I swear: I could go postal. For reals. Gah!
Also, I carry lots of crap too…mostly kid stuff. They can’t seem to carry anything…I guess they have a sudden case of “broken arm syndrome” when we get home…?
And, yeah, I think we all need to do a purse post. You know. Look through eachothers bags. We used to to do that at work. It was fun.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Oh yeah, our neighborhood gets the mail right to our houses. My friend lives accross town and she has one of those stupid boxes.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:20 pm
That is a ton of stuff! I used to carry everything with me all the time, you know, just in case i needed it, and then I just stopped. I couldn’t carry all that stuff anymore. Now I only carry my keys. It is a much lighter load….though there are times when I really wish I had my huge purse that was full of all sorts of provisions.
September 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I am in awe of the women I see on the train going to work with just a purse. I have a purse, my Elle lunchbag and a bag with stuff I carry back and forth, just in case (umbrella, kleenex, wipes – what the heck? I’m not even a Mum!) and no, my lunchbag doesn’t fit in the other bag, so in case you were counting that’s 3, yes three things to carry. Shame about your mail – move closer to me. Mine is delivered right to my door!
September 1st, 2010 at 3:36 pm
I usually just have my purse and travel coffee mug. Unless I stopped at Target on the way home. And my mail gets delivered to one of those lock boxes, but it’s right inside the lobby of our condo building. And my hubs wears wife beaters pretty much every day, as an undershirt. I just wish they had a better name.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:12 pm
wait. i am scared about the knife. please don’t ever use it. you are too pretty to go to jail.
i don’t know if you noticed, but i have the same mail sitch in my neighborhood. i don’t get the mail anymore because manfriend gets his panties in bunch if i forget it in my car. so i boycotted it all together. i am such a grown up.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I know that laptop bag! I have seen it with my very own eyeballs.
Ok, stuff in the car. Maybe I need to take a lesson from you and constantly carry stuff in from it. But I don’t. And then I get all in a huff about why my car gets so mother freaking messy.
My house isn’t messy. Why is my car always a pit?
Apparently because i should be completely emptying it daily.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Not at all surprised about the amount of stuff you carry back and forth. You are a girl and we need stuff, apparently! I do it too and I don’t have too kids!!! I am quite concerned about the knife though. Hopefully you bought it on your shopping trip at lunch…….
September 1st, 2010 at 10:23 pm
My husband calls my purse the dungeon because it has everything in it including a dragon according to him. I would say I carry a lot of crap…er stuff too.
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:36 am
My names not Mimi but I’m certainly pissed you haven’t mailed me any books.
That mail system is crazy. I think you need to redesign it from the ground up. Technology is great these days, perhaps there’s some way to send mail by computers. I don’t know, but it’s something worth looking into.
I have my pockets full on the walk to work..
Keys
Wallet
iTouch
Phone
Reading glasses
Snack
Okay, maybe it’s not so bad.
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I also carry quite a bit of stuff in and out of the house. Most days I come in with my hands completely full, and that’s because I have a purse and shopping bag full of stuff ( i use a shopping bag for my lunch bag)..maybe it’s a woman thing!?
And we have the magic lock box, too. It’s right outside our house, though, so it itsnt’ a big deal for us..thank God!
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
1. That laptop bag is beautiful.
2. Were you brandishing the knife menacingly as you walked with it? Because the visual I just got from that makes me laugh.
3. I always miss my mail for days at a time too. Our lock box is right downstairs, but I’m forgetful. I think the mailperson must hate me.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:19 am
I would never question wife beaters…I buy them for myself! HA!
September 7th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
We do get our mail delivered directly to our own mailbox. Yet it is always a source of disappointment. I run down every day, hopeful of checks and thoughtful greeting cards and maybe prizes for something. But it’s all BILLS and CATALOGS and PIZZA COUPONS. Not that there’s anything wrong with pizza coupons. I just wish instead they were, you know, an actual pizza.
My mom always has a hammer in her car. There’s no way I’m telling her about your knife.
September 8th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Oh, I guarantee you that my car has more junk in it than yours. I travel around from school to school doing speech therapy and don’t have any place to store my ‘stuff’ at work. The trunk is full of games, picture cards, bubbles, books, wipes, and I don’t know what else. The backseat has paperwork rolling around and the front seat has fast food wrappers and bags, audio books, ipod cords, headphones, books, and old fries everywhere. It’s a biohazard.
PS What’s the deal with the knife?
September 10th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
As long as you’re keeping a giant, stabby knife back there, I don’t have a single problem with you or what you have in your car.
In fact, I, too, shall put all of those same items in my car so I may be more like you.
And your knife.