Day 377

Good evening my Corona finds and I hope everyone had a Happy Easter, as the weather proved to be a glorious day for an Easter egg hunt. Crowds were out in the city and a lot of strolling happening but I didn’t get to see too many Easter bonnets as my roommate and I spent the day helping out some family members declutter for their move to assisted living.  Declutter may be too easy a word for what was really a steam shovel event for some massive hoarding. Imagine if you already have a problem and then add a yearlong pandemic where you don’t leave the house and rarely throw out a piece of mail.  Now you double it because there are two of them. Can you imagine how many trash bags we took down to the dumpster?  It really makes you appreciate that we have adopted a more minimalist lifestyle and believe me when I say my roommate is even more convinced that we need to pare it down even more. I know most people during this year of lockdown used this opportunity to do a Marie Kondo thing and really organize and only keep the things that “bring you joy”, well that wasn’t happening to these two as I don’t think every solicitation that came in the mail was a source of joy but rather a heaping mess. I am so thrilled that they finally agreed to make the move that I didn’t even mind that much to give up this beautiful Easter weekend helping that happen, Covid gave us another pass to skip a family celebration as not everyone is fully vaccinated yet and you know we only break the rules half the time. After yesterday and the hot mess, I decided we better get a fresh start with things for their new home.  Costco and Target were closed today but I found that Walmart was open so off to the big blue to outfit the kitchen, bathroom, and bedrooms. This may have been my second trip to a Walmart, like I said Target and Costco are my favorites, and we were so shocked at the sheer size of the place this one must have been a super-size.  You can’t really do power shopping if you don’t know the lay of the land and Techie doesn’t love pushing a carriage around a superstore. First off I was shocked how cheap things are, ice cube trays for .87 cents, bath mats for $2.99 and I didn’t get the cheapest.  How can they put this stuff out so cheap?  We easily filled two carts and I thought they were downsizing. I was running around finding things while Techie looked dazed and confused. The best part was I was wearing a blue vest so other customers kept asking me where things were.  I got to thinking have I hit a new low? Shopping in Walmart on Easter Sunday and getting mistaken for an employee?  Not that there is anything wrong with being a Walmart associate but if you recall from my last entry My roommate and I were transitioning from our old jobs, and I really wasn’t looking for a new one just yet. I am actually still gainfully employed and that is a whole other story for the future.   By the time we’re leaving today, a crowd had formed outside and there was a line to get in so Easter service was alive and well in the Walmart parking lot. Americans love to shop and consume and I am pretty sure this place never closed during the pandemic because the food aisle went on forever and ever.

Fingers crossed that the move happens this week and we could not be happier to have them move into a sparkling clean apartment, newly outfitted with my Walmart purchases.  I know it is kind of ridiculous that I bought so many new things, when they probably had several of each item that I bought, but finding it was another story. Some of you may have seen a show on the telly about hoarders well this place could be considered a medium one and going through and putting your hands on it gave me the heebie geebies, so thankful for those low prices. Meeting with movers it was weird standing among this shit mess but he was very kind and said he has seen worse. OMG, I couldn’t imagine it being worse but glad he could work with us.  In the past, we would have gone in and helped them declutter but during this year of lockdown under the Pandemic that was one place I wasn’t going to take a chance, hence the buildup. After today I decide I am not going to get annoyed with my roommate for always leaving his dirty sox on the bedroom floor and I will just pick them up like I always do, but now I won’t secretly curse him, as it is only a pair of socks, but when I start finding weeks’ worth of mail on the floor, he is getting a swift boot in the ass. I can always go to Walmart and get him some new socks. Did you know that they have bins of facemasks at the checkout and actually in several places in the store? You could really get something going with your fashion statements.

Just saying………