Piles

[inkjunkie]

Anyone else a pile building pro? You get mail, bills, magazines whatever....Into a pile. Come home with your shopping lists and receipts....Into the pile. Phone, pens....Damn near everything goes into it. Sort of like a labor of love. Then one night at 2a.m. you are awoken by your pile, or in my case piles falling over and hitting the floor. So now you have to get out of bed to pick it up so that one of your looney pets doesn't have a shredding party. Needless to say while you are bent over picking it up one of your dog's has to come over and stick her cold wet nose into your butt crack...next day you sift thru your beloved pile....only to have almost everything get relocated to the "shredder pile". You vow to never let it get that out of control again...fast forward a week or so and the new pile makes the old one look like child's play...

 

[themule69]

I make piles but I do go threw them and burn most of the pile before they hit the floor.

Happy smoken.

David

 

[bbqbrett]

Just got rid of some piles a couple weeks ago. Shredded some stuff and recycled some other things. So far I have not let them get back out of control. Wish me luck.

 

[boykjo]

My wife is a pile Queen. Wicker baskets are not allowed in the house anymore..... She has improved over the years but she can wreck a clean counter top in the blink of an eye.......lol

 

[wimpy69]

I always thought a pile Queen was a wife who was a pain in the a*@. I stand corrected. Thanks.

 

[bluewhisper]

piles falling over and hitting the floor

That's what I call a crapalanche. There's reliable load-bearing crap, but then there's unstable, shifting crap. Some strata may gradually compress, shifting the load, while other strata (like magazines) will readily shear in response to the shift. Loss of stability causes the release of the potential energy stored in the vertical stacking of the crap.

 

[noboundaries]

You guys have no idea how therapeutic it was for me to read this thread. My wife loves to give a flat surface "character and vertical relief." It can be infectious so be careful.

 

[bluewhisper]

I moved back home to a serious hoarding situation, and I'm not done getting rid of it all. We had rooms with pathways between the piles, and some that couldn't be entered more than three feet.

I had a moment of realization while busting and bagging a pile in the basement, because some of the pile was big plastic bags - I realized I was bagging bags as trash, when I could be using them as trash bags, making the crap work for me.

More than once, I have shifted a pile of stuff that needed to be boxed, to discover an empty box at the bottom of the stack.

 

[inkjunkie]

crapalanche....that made my afternoon...thanks...

 

[wimpy69]

This sounds like a Carlin bit.

 

[smokin' burt]

I'm not a pile builder,,,, I'm a MOUND builder. I believe I'm descended from the prehistoric Native Americans of the Ohio Valley because I don't build little piles of stuff, I build mounds. If you ever entered my man cave you'd know immediately this is true. LOL!!!

SMB

 

[inkjunkie]

I'm not a pile builder,,,, I'm a MOUND builder. I believe I'm descended from the prehistoric Native Americans of the Ohio Valley because I don't build little piles of stuff, I build mounds. If you ever entered my man cave you'd know immediately this is true. LOL!!!

SMB

Would you mind a picture or two, I need something to strive for....

 

[smokin' burt]

Sorry ink...

My man cave is "sacred ground"...

SMB

 

[talan64]

I open and review my mail standing directly over a recycle box, since most of the mail we get goes in the box, it makes things easy.

My problem is the things I need to file, that end up on my desk, until I can't stand it anymore, and spend an afternoon / evening filing papers, that just end up getting shredded at some point in the future.

 

[inkjunkie]

Sorry ink...

My man cave is "sacred ground"...:biggrin:

SMB

come on now....help a brother out. How am I ever going to progress to the next level?