Saturday, February 11, 2012

Are you a Hunter or a Gatherer?

I wonder how many of us are hunters and how many of us are gatherers?  


I am a gatherer, though I do love a good hunt for a bargain (I am my mothers daughter after all)!  I am a gatherer of everything from family history stuff...my dad's report cards...my grandparents marriage certificate...most of the family photos...etc.  I also have memorablia from my elementary, high school, and college years...I mean I still have news papers from high school football games and sorority and fraternity charms from college.  I have ticket stubs and t'shirts from concerts, long lost boyfriends love letters (note: Hubs has some of his!) birthday cards from grandparents now gone. I have several memorable items from when Hubs was wooing me, pressed flowers and cards. But what do I gather the absolute most?  Well it is something I am allergic to, and not a fan of at all, but I sure do have a lot of it.  I bet you would of never guess it...dust...I gather so much in this house even after I have dusted and I have dust...I do not enjoy dusting at all.  But honestly does dusting really ever ring someones bell?  

I wish I could say that I am good at hunting the dust down, but I have to be honest, it just reproduces too fast for me...I mean it is worse than rabbits which we have too, but I didn't gather those, they just showed up...one in our garage reeking havoc...but I digress and we all know how fast they multiply..I betcha didn't know they pop out those baby rabbits after only 32 days and average about 8 a litter...but again I digress.


When I come into my millions (still waiting on that winning Publishers Clearing House win) one of the first things I do in my new mansion, is hire someone to control my gathering habit of dust.  I would really love it if someone else did the housecleaning, but until those millions come in it is me.   So I will start this cycle over and over and over again writing my name or 'Dust Me' on the book shelves that need dusting or in hopes someone else in this household would just do it once. Normally I do my best Scarlett O'Hara imitation 'fiddle dee dee, fiddle dee dee' 'tomorrow is another day'...and go eat some bon bons.  Now when I win my millions I will also have the cabana boy fetch my bon bons in between fanning me by the pool, so I don't 'glow' too much!

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