Well, it was Thursday or Friday of last week when I got a postcard in the mail saying that a truck would be in my neighborhood on Monday to pick up my discarded clothing and household items.  Now, I love getting these cards, because if there is one thing we have too much of around here it’s clothes.

So Saturday I spent the day cleaning in my daughters’ rooms sorting through their millions of clothes, and I made a pile of stuff to get rid of.  I was also reorganizing their closet.  I had been using it to hang my clothes, but since it’s fall I decided to make more room by boxing up my summer tops.  So I got two nice big boxes and put my summer clothes in one and the giveaways in the other. 

That morning I had gotten a really cool nativity in the mail from my TOS focus group.  (Review coming soon!)  I sat the nativity in the box of summer clothes so they would be together to go in the attic.  The thought had crossed my mind that I would mix up the boxes, so I figured I would be able to tell them apart if the summer clothes box had the other box in it.  Of course my son decided to take the nativity out again so he could play with it and left it on the couch. 

Late Sunday night I remembered that I had some other clothes to give away in a Rubbermaid in the basement.  I had my son bring it up.  I was in a hurry because it was near midnight.  I took all the stuff out of the Rubbermaid and stuffed it in the box and had my son take it out to the curb.  I had him set it back a bit because it was trash day on Monday, and I was afraid they’d be mistaken for garbage.  When I looked out around 9:30 they were already gone.  I knew the right truck had taken them because I had a receipt on my door.

I went about my business feeling good that I had now finally emptied one of the many Rubbermaids in my basement.  Then I saw the box.  It was the box of things from the girls’ room.  That could only mean one thing. I had sent my summer clothes out to the curb!!!  I thought I had looked into it.  There was no nativity to tip me off.  I don’t know how it happened, but it did. 

Well, I must be getting better.  I didn’t panic too much.  I simply yelled out “I just gave away all my summer clothes!”  Then I had the presence of mind to find the receipt and get the phone number.  I knew exactly what the box said. It said “Savor the Flavor” because I had several more.  You see our neighbor had given us a bunch of boxes of expired chips!  So I called the nice lady at the donation center and she was able to track down the box.  They are bringing it here tomorrow.  So the truck will be driving around picking things up from everyone but me.  I’ll not only be getting my clothes back, but I’ll be getting back all the other clothes I was so happy to unload.

That’s just a typical day in my life.  I am always running around trying to do a million things at once.  Sometimes I do things without really thinking.  I try to save my brain cells for the important things.   Sometimes there aren’t enough brain cells to go around.  I do what I can, and so far I haven’t done too much damage.  Well, I did back into Sane Man’s car the other day.  But that’s another story…

Now you know why I am The Crazy Mom.