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Cleaning up or how to shake a marriage One of the best ways I know to knock the mortar out from between the bricks of your marriage cement things is to join your spouse in cleaning up the basement Take your pick One as bad as the My wife been talking about cleaning up basement for approximately IS I have avoided it by resorting to a number if subterfuges that 1 will gladly send you on reteipl of a certified cheque for five bucks may seem a little expensive but lakes a mighty lot of subterfuge to get through 15 years Hut is unavoidable It last wttk in the form of an ad in he local paper staling that the town rucks would pick up household junk on the following Thursday II caused a lot of deep thinking In our town What consitutcs household junk Some chaps I know sat there pretending to watch TV while their dark and secret minds conjured visions of chloroforming old woman putting her in a green garbage bag and sticking her out by the curb on Thursday I m happy to say nothing of the sort occurred to me tit says here Bui the notice did a deep anguished in right from the heels I knew what was turning I thought I might be to stall her until the Wednesday evening before when we could lug a few things out of the jungle that lies below and leavi the rest to rot as lias been doing for Hut it wis not be With complete disregard for my feelings about he the almost of weekends slit dragged me down Into the underworld on a perfect day for playing golf pointed and coldly said Let Oh could sneered picktd up my golf clubs walked the car and driven off I wish had that kind of guls But I 1 tome home to living martyr and six months of sheer She appearing round the door re not going to throw out Ihal perfectly good chunk of Imoltum mighl need it to patch the kitchen floor Me sottovoct Why donl joumakca bikini out f it you great seamstress I went Down That when I began to envy those lucky devils who have con verted their basements into ree rooms If you one of those you don unpack a box remove the contents and happily hurl the container down the cellar steps You get rid of it in some seemly fashion It s not the grubbing through spiderwebs and othir assurted dirt that I mind First job I ever had was cleaning out latrines and I have no dignity when It comes to dirt What gets me Is the dialogue We were in two different rooms she in place where the oil tanks is and the Christmas tree stands and the paint pots all a little in them and the old drum and cymbals set and sun Hugh spots and pans and dishes from the time he was batching and a lot of interesting artifacts like that wis out in the main cellar where we normally shovel a path from bottom of the steps to the furnace the washer and dryer It was full of wet cardboard boxes pieces of linoleum indent lamps without shades indent shades without limps mildewed purses and gunny sicks and jackets warped curtain rods ski poles without handles skis with the harness missing various pieces of torn plastic great heaps of old sheets kept for dusting similar Me alarmed Hey you re not going to throw out the sack I had that Normandy in She has i hole in l and slinks of mould And what about these old medals Old medals my foot They arc precious They ire not ex ictly the and the D As a matter of fact one is for joining up another for getting across the ocean sunk a third for eon wartime rations the fourth for getting But the grmdboys like to play staying the Spam i home with Hum A on I goes fight over every item forsentimentalorpractical reasons I hate to sec a perfectly good go out though it Ins no handle and match the kitchen She gets upset when I want lo discard the third last vacuum cleaner we had because has he propensity of being a great spray painting weapon for painting fences if we had a fence she could find a exactly the size of the one hat is missing wegive little here take a little there both wind up furious and exhausted When i was all over there wasn much Slit hollers Bill I Ihink there s enough left but i of moldy love here to touch up the woodwork letters J years old I hive just lifted an anonymous box full of dirt from when the was cleaned out The bottom has dropped out and I am contemplating i onefool mound of furnace excrement on the floor Slit di know it hut I tomg to gel up it on Ihursdiy morning them out and bury them among Hie junk I simply hearing what a chump I was in those days The Acton Fret Press Wednesday June 13 5 A discarded polt lamp cord where makes on attractive the lights used to be for plant hanger Remove hangers lo hang your light fixtures and electric plants if J and linichousc tubs received awards at his Tim back row far left was with a knife fur cling the mount of pledges in the Trees for Canada camp lien Tim is member of the first Seoul Iroop Cub awards given Hard rewarded Monday it the North Hal Hastings Anne ion District Seoul awards Brian Anglican Sharpies church in Georgetown tour Cubs from Acton ind four from received their five star to Terry Ciller Vic longo Anne ind Andrei Sharpies A ten year and medal On the With Helen Don forget it hers Day on Sunday To my own ither in Colhngwood who is known to several Acton residents I wish a happy Pathers Day Many folks eluding vital Meals on Wheels own who know me maybe too which provides meals to elderly folks well wonder how he put up with mc all who are not able lo make themselves these years Would you believe pat proper meals See the ad in this week s paper and see you il the shoe sale f I Silver wedding anniversary ire extended and The Press will publish Duvil who celebrated 25 years uatum photos from Colleges and f marriage on the weekend The couple ivcrsltics free of charge Please submit were taken out to dinner Saturday your photos with a small writeup or evening by daughter Carolyn and information for a writeup the I Arttm daughter Beverly before the paper comes out ind When hey returned their Nelson Court home they found themselves he mids of a WAHP Women Against Rising party Prices his come with their list of foods boycott for the next two weeks Hie I in Deed a group of They are no beef frozen people who get together tables fruit drinks instant coffee for fun and have changed their oranges is canned fish and meeting pi ice and date for their next imported cheese meeting last weeks paper said they prank provincial minister of would next gel together June it Consume Affairs has asked WARP or Bennett school Since then the plice can meet with them to has been changed to Anne fern discuss feedback ihey have been re- luck supper on June concerning heir now nation wideboytolt He is working on the arm Price Review Board and is in 11 hunters are reminded of the in the public views No date giant shoe sale this Thursday and Pn his set fur the meeting is at the Acton Some pairs of imped it will be in he next few weeks shoes in op condition were do lso from WARP comes the ad tilted to Community Services iisliihuI i buy straw by Shoes help raise btrrits Oil in 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