Too much stuff?

Anyone who knows me knows I'm in the middle of trying to get my house back in order. I had started doing so before I became depressed, at which point all efforts came to a dead stop. Since then the house has descended into total clutter, getting perilously close to the infamous path down the middle going from room to room. Seeing that I don't like clutter this a totally unacceptable situation. Once clutter sets in, it takes a LONG time to get uncluttered.

This weekend I cleared off the couch in front of my porch windows. Embarrassing to say I had started to sort out my collection of computer, telephone and audio cables 2 - 3 years ago and there they have sat ever since. Well no more. They are now neatly organized in clear plastic tubs and have made there way down to the basement.

You might think this means I have an additional couch now, well not so fast. My folks got it reupholstered years ago and promptly put one of those cover things over it made of the ugliest green material you ever saw. I protested, "Why cover it up after spending so much to make it look nice?". "We want to preserve it". "Oh".

I had a bad feeling about this cover, and sure enough, when I took it off I found what I had feared. It had a foam backing on it, the kind that gets all nasty and sticky when it gets old. Now I have a yellow patterned sleeper couch, covered with olive green sticky foam. I figured I'd vacuum it off, instead I wound up with the stuff all over the vacuum attachments. Had to soak them down real good with Glass Plus and then almost peel it off. For now I've put an old sheet from my bed over it, transforming it into a dark blue sleeper couch.

I've never had much of an attachment to this couch so I had planned to sell it as part of a big garage sale, not sure who would take it in the shape it's in now, but yet it's in great shape except for the sticky stuff. Hmmm.