Bone of Contention

Photos: Before and after

You know those little sighs and disagreements you have with your husband? Well, one of his little "sighs" is the back of my car. When we go grocery shopping, he unloads the bags and put them in the car. He always comments about the box back there and how it takes up room and how is he supposed to make everything fit, yada, yada, yada.

I had the box back there because of all the junk I had all over my car. I used a post office box and put my books, sticks (yes, I collect sticks) and other assorted "stuff." I put it in the back one day and never got around to taking it out.

He is a place for everything and everything has a place to my see it, put it somewhere convenient and forget it.

So today, I went and got the box and distributed said items to where they were supposed to be: my backpack to my art room, the sticks to my art room, books to the bookshelf, cleaned out my water bottle, put away the two bottles of water and the papers went in the trash. I put all the canvas bags in two of my other bags - I do keep them in the car so when we go grocery shopping I can bring them in and save a few cents (and not have to deal with plastic or paper bags).

We'll see his reaction next time. I'm not telling him I cleaned it.

I'm not worried - he'll find something else.