What’s Up In the Attic Room?

The attic room is in a time warp. It’s a small finished room in a strange little spot of the house. I always thought it would make a great little fort for the kids but instead it spent many years as an office until eventually it was outgrown. There’s an awkwardly steep staircase leading up to it with things oddly stacked on the stairs. It makes for a treacherous climb.

Since it’s not a room that’s visited very often, time seems to stand still. The last time I cleaned it out, I found lots of things from the late 90’s, early 2000’s. That was 4 years ago so guess how old everything up there is now. Plus, some of that older stuff is still up there too.

I’m starting an item count a few days before the new year starts because 2019 is going to be the best one yet! Yesterday was first count with 70. I’m embarrassed to say it was mostly food and yes, from 2014. I have no idea how it ended up there. Anyways, I’ve got a lot to add to that 70 already today…

• 2 socks that don’t match
• Christmas plate
• 4 cups
• 1 Coca Cola glass
• Metal coffee mug
• A cup that’s split in the middle so you can put chocolate milk on one side and regular milk on the other side and then drink it through a twisty straw
• Reese’s peanut butter cookie mix with a cast iron skillet (from 2014)
• Baby shower invitations
• Good Housekeeping Cookie Jar Cookbook
• How to Find a Bargain Home book from 1986!!!! It’s interesting and it’s fun looking at the dollar amounts of homes in the book, but I think it’s time to let this one go.
• PrintMaster 7.0. It’s for Window 95 or 98. Time to go!
• Vacation Station workbook from our local public television station 1995.
• A leopard jacket that’s too small for everyone.
• 6 Tupperware catalogs from 2014.
• Pack of outdated Tupperware order forms
• Garlic from 2014

That’s 25 more! There was also a small bag of plastic bags and random papers but I’m not going to count those this time. I’ll try to get up there one or two more times yet today. I’m off for a few more days and hoping that this room feels a lot lighter by the time I have to go back to work.

My current total now for 2019 is 95! (At least for a few more hours!)