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I was over on Tumblr reading Unfuck Your Habitat (http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/) and came across the following challenge: You’re avoiding something. It might be an invisible corner. It might be a box of crap you need to deal with. It might be your junk drawer. Whatever it is that you’ve been relieved that none of the challenges so far have made you deal with, that’s what you’re dealing with for the next 20 minutes. Don’t lie to yourself. You’re putting something off, but now you have to go deal with it.

And I knew exactly which drawer of crap it refered to: It was a dresser drawer---the rest of the dresser is long since gone---that's crammed with stuff sentimental, assorted WTFs and IDEKs, and it's been sitting on or near my dining room table for a very long time. (Enough that GK mentioned it while she was down and suggested I relocate it to the middle room til I got around to sorting thru it.

Okay, I thought. NOW is the time. I'll move the damned thing...except I could barely frackin LIFT it. To attempt to carry it to the middle room fully laden would've been to invite catastrophe. I'd either drop it, or the bottom would fall out.

Well then, I'd do a preliminary sift right there and then. Paperwork, blah, blah, blah, calculator, blah, blah, blah, ceramic boxes, blah, blah, blah...cylindrical wad of white printer paper,...?

Holy shit.

It was a roll of Kennedy half dollars. The paper they're wrapped in is dated 1999, so they've been sitting in that drawer for a long time. They're not sterling, alas, but even face value* is enough to cover my car insurance for this month, which I've been sweating bullets over. Plus there's a little over, which will top off my tank and maybe get a few things I'm out of. And for once, I don't mean caffeine!

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* Although I have a 2004 coin book that lists Kennedy half dollars between 1965-1970 as having an average value of $2 each. Now all I have to do is find someone who'll give me that!

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Date: 2012-07-29 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] majolika.livejournal.com
that's a cool reward for an unfucking effort! yay indeed!

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Date: 2012-07-29 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I must be doing something right. I seldom run across unexpected cash, usually I know where every penny of it is!

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Date: 2012-07-29 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] majolika.livejournal.com
the Goddess of the Unfuck sent it to you!

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Date: 2012-07-29 04:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
All hail the Goddess Unfuck!


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Date: 2012-07-29 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com
I knew sending you that Tumblr link was a good idea!

:-)

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Date: 2012-07-29 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
It totally was. Thank you!


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Date: 2012-07-29 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nwhepcat.livejournal.com
Wow, that's inspirational. I've been avoiding my whole house (and today was epic avoidance). But I really need to spend some serious time at it.

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Date: 2012-07-29 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I sure do understand that. Until my friend GK visited last month and helped me blast a few paths, I'd been wibbling in a corner for months. At this point, I'm trying to maintain it and make more progress a little at a time (because it's too damn hot to go at it whole-hog).

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Date: 2012-07-29 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nwhepcat.livejournal.com
I spent maybe an hour last night looking at that site, then got up this morning and unloaded the dishwasher and reloaded it, cleaned the toilet bowl, put away some stuff, did a load of laundry. It's only 10:20 a.m.

It's really a lot like Fly Lady, only with the f-bomb. I couldn't stand Fly Lady because of the constant nudges to do things (and the get up and get dressed crap). I quit that in one day. This is a hell of a lot more me.

I haven't made my bed yet, though.

Off to do another 20 minutes!

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Date: 2012-07-29 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
My biggest issue was Flylady's assumption that I was Married With Children, which I'm not and never have been. (Maybe married at some point in the future, I don't rule it out, but my spawning days are OVER.)

I failed on the getting dressed to shoes BS. In this heat, I'm hard-pressed to get dressed to clothes. Chaos is a polite way of saying it's fucked up, but I'm really and truly over political correctness. My place is fucked up! I own it, I'll call it like I see it. And yay for you, getting shit done!

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Date: 2012-07-29 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ruric.livejournal.com
Surprise cash is always of the good!

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Date: 2012-07-29 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Yes, indeed! It happens so seldom that I was absolutely gob-smacked---and still am!


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Date: 2012-07-29 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com
That's wonderful! *happy dances* And that site is totally addictive and reminded me that the Last Frontier of 'we've moved' home organization is still lurking under the laundry room sink.

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Date: 2012-07-29 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Sounds like a B-movie---"It Lurked Beneath the Sink" (on a double bill with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes").


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Date: 2012-07-29 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com
Hehee! Some Windex, elbow grease, and the application of shelf liner and double-faced tape took care of it. It's all neat and tidy instead of heaped and rusty now.

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Date: 2012-07-30 05:02 am (UTC)

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Date: 2012-07-30 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com
Brilliant! Good to know that Tumblr can actually do something besides just gobbling up hours of my life.

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