Everything must go!
12/21/2008 at 11:51 from (47.683479, -122.266725)
Forced to remain indoors in the face of the ice-draped hellscape that is Seattle's BLIZZARD 2008, we finally got around to posting some of our less-used or least necessary stuff for sale.
We've made a first pass at clearing out crap we don't use and simplifying our cluttered little lives. These early offerings are the things that don't even make it through the coarse filter. They simply have no place in our home.
First on the block are a couple of chairs we bought. Just so that we're clear why we feel chairs are expendable, please understand that we have -- in an apartment just larger than two jail cells -- twelve chairs. We only have two asses between the both of us, and not nearly enough friends to occupy the rest of our sitting devices. Twelve chairs is simply insanity.
Next up: Desk lamps. Honestly, I hate these things -- not because they're bad, but because they do their job so damn well. I love darkness. I crave the sweet embrace of the black pall of night. These lamps penetrate my beloved dark with savage ferocity, bouncing their hellish light off of every vaguely reflective surface.
Marijana loves them.
She has given them cute Croatian names (Mujo and Haso). She uses them to simultaneously illuminate her homework and enrage her husband. They are a major source of marital dischord for us. Please help strengthen the bonds of our love by taking these accursed desk lamps away. Please.
Moving along: Poker and board games. These are just the sort of things that we have no reason to keep, but always hesitate to rid ourselves of. We're far too busy to play Monopoly or poker these days, but they were valuable gifts and bear strong sentimental value. Getting rid of these bits and pieces is the first step in our therapeutic disentanglement. We're starting small so the trauma is minor.
And this brings us to our universe of Wii accessories. Again, to give the reader some perspective, we don't own a Wii anymore. We only owned one for two months. It was the most blissful, fun-filled, expensive, unproductive two months of my life.
So we sold it.
But some of the stuff we bought to fuel our Wiitopia stuck around, gathering dust under the TV. Some of the crap is brand new, literally still boxed up. Some stuff was bought to accompany games that were only played once (Lego Star Wars II, I'm looking at you). All of it is useless to us, but valuable to some poor, Ritalin-addicted child.
And now, the finale: Kitchen appliances we almost never use. Both of these are wedding gifts that, while much appreciated, we simply don't use. I can attest to the deliciousness of the waffles made by the waffle iron, but Marijana can also attest to the mess I make when mixing waffle batter. One harsh reprimand from the wife forever foiled my waffle-making dreams, and this otherwise beautiful machine has sat in a drawer ever since, cruelly deprived of the opportunity to live up to its lofty waffly potential.
The mixer would be, to any reasonable couple, much more useful. But we're far from reasonable. Try as we might, we couldn't find many uses for a hand mixer beyond the construction of a single cheesecake in late 2007. We don't do much baking and very rarely make desserts that aren't smoothies (bless our blender!) or fried bananas. If you can use it, please make us an offer we can't refuse.
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