Treasure!

This past weekend, I was super busy, but I finally got my storage unit cleaned out and all of my stuff moved down to San Antonio. It was a lot of work, but I am now $55 richer each month! Woo Hoo!

All of my stuff from the storage unit is now in my garage and Kasey has been going through it and organizing it into groups. One group is the stuff that we are keeping and it is put in the house in the place that it goes. The next group is stuff to be sold on craigslist or eBay (anyone need a fridge?). Another is comprised of items to be given to Goodwill or whatever charity will give us the best write off. The final group is made up of my stuff and is the only pile that causes any conflict.

I have some things that I would like to keep from my childhood for different reasons. Some of it is "collectible", like my baseball and hockey cards. Some of it is sentimental, like my teddy bear, Fred. Some of it is just cool, like my Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe's and Transformers. Kasey does not like these things and thinks that I should only keep Fred and get rid of the rest. I am not sure what it is, but if it is cool, old, plastic, in a box and mine, she does not like it. I honestly think that she has never played with G.I. Joe's. Anyway, she wants it to all go away, but I am not sure that I am ready to do that just yet.

When I was a kid, one of the coolest things that I found to do was to go through the boxes in my grandmother's basement. She had some shelves that had box after box of old stuff from when my dad and uncles were kids and I was welcome to play with it and in some cases, I got to keep the toys. I just thought that this was the coolest thing in the world. In those days, they sold things to kids that would never fly when I was a kid, let alone now. One of the coolest things that I got was a monster masher (I have no idea what it is really called). It had these little plastic monsters, about the size of a green army man that you could put on the included hot plate (yes, you could burn yourself with it) and then once he softened, it had a little chamber that you could put him in. When the monster was in the chamber, you could crank a wheel and it would smash the guy into a cube that had some sort of emblem on it (Mattel, I think?). You could then take that cube and stick it on the hot plate again and the monster would unfold back to the regular scary shape! I mean, how cool is that? When you are 9 or 10, it is pretty cool, trust me.

Anyway, I have great memories of playing with these "old" toys. I would like to have kids some day and have boxes of "treasure" for them to go through when they get to the right age. There would be toys there that they did not make any more. Not only that, but I have original Transformers, and they just made another movie. If I had kids, they would already have the toys. (By the way, I have played with the new Transformers toys and they are STUPID compared to the old ones.)

The coolest thing is that when I would play with the old toys, I would think of my dad as a kid and imagine him playing with the same toys. It made him more real to me. It made me think of him more as a person who had a full life and not just the guy who made me clean my room.

Anyway, the cool stuff is not going anywhere. Kasey already looked through it to see if any of it was worth a lot of money and it is all just a bunch of… toys. J Besides, it is mine.

I have thought about it, and I could get rid of it, but I don't have to. There is no reason for me to. I want it and it's already mine, so I am going to keep it. It is not like I am living on a boat or anything. ;) I mean, if I was on a boat, there would be limited space, so I would have to do something with it.

Maybe this is her way of telling me that she wants me to buy a boat, and that she wants to live on it and travel the world! THAT would be sweet.

(BTW, that is a "Lavezzi 40" by Fontaine Pajot. Super Sweet.)