I refuse to touch it...

This is a little corner in our dining room, which is already a tight space. see those boxes of bottles and cans stacked up? You'd THINK that they would become an annoyance and he would just take those to the store, if only to trade it in for more beer. But apparently the only one they annoy is me.

In the fruit bowl you will see Skoal cannisters. No, he doesn't chaw. He collected those cannisters from guys at work for "a project" and there they continue to sit. The children refill the fruit bowl on grocery day and somehow the cannisters still make it back in there. The mittens obviously are the children's, so I can't blame that on him (although he is just as able to put them away as I am). and the newspapers are all bagged up for recycling, which has not been put out now for three weeks in spite of my numerous requests - even this past "day before" when his friend was over and I asked him AGAIN in front of his friend more than once to take care of it. I was actually NICE about it (next time, not so much - friend or no friend.)



The buffet next to the "crap collecting corner" is a total wreck. That's HIS fish tank that he just can't get rid of. he doesn't clean it, or bother to feed the fish regularly (how they're still alive is a miracle), but he won't get rid of it. It serves no purpose right now except to take up buffet space. (It's not like we ever use the buffet either, but getting rid of that is a whole 'nother animal.) I created a "med box" for the nightly meds that need to be easy access. (Yes, all other meds are put away - those are just the inhalers and the peak flow meters.) He doesn't take any of those meds, yet somehow he ends up messing up the system anyway. Go figure. All the crap on the left, in front of the beautiful picture I have framed of Kasia in sepia tones, is his that he just won't put away. GAH!



The next time we clean the dining room this is definitely his job. (I told the therapist that I need to purge. he agrees we need to, but told the therapist that i do it "willy nilly" and throw away "all the good stuff with no regard for him." HAH! Just you wait, dear. Just you wait...