Emily Jean's Profile

Wonderful moments with cardboard in my childhood include my mom finding a fridge box on her morning walk and bringing it home so we could build a house out of it.

I have the one in the picture. It's really great. I'm really not sure who would see it anyway. We keep between the sheet and the bedspread.

I used to look at things like that as me being lazy, but have you ever thought that maybe where you are currently storing those items just might not be the right place? Think about it for a moment. What makes more sense: having to walk over to the closet (in my case this is in another room from the exterior door we usually use) or having a place right inside the door? If space permits, make a landing pad. I re purposed an old toy box for a bench/storage area, put a few hooks in the wall for coats and bags and put a decorative plate for keys and pocket junk on top of the curio that is next to the bench.

My mother did this the summer I was six or seven. It was a whole family event, especially raising the walls. We call it the little house and it has always been this nice retreat in their backyard. It's even survived a tornado when most of the rest of the yard didn't.

My friends laugh at me for my tech graveyard, until it comes in handy. Which is why I think I've never gone through all of it. Who knows when I might need a circa-2004 Sprint cell phone (I'm not on Sprint anymore) or a 128MB flash drive. After all, that flash drive was worth $50 once!

A few storage containers, probably some lost clothing and usually a cat or two. Our younger cat has actually torn a hole through the cotton on the bottom of the box spring and crawls around under there. One weekend soon he's going to find his little hide-away closed back up.