Honey-Do List

Part of the husband hat is the Honey-Do List. Any husband who thinks that they can cruise through married life without taking care of anything on this list is headed for the single life. The list, however, can never be completed. No matter how many items on the list get completed, and no matter how quickly and efficiently they are done, there will always be more items added to it.

That's just the way it is.

Today's Honey-do's were a couple of those do-it-yourself furniture kits. There's a third one, and I'll probably do that one tomorrow.

The first one is a little two shelf cabinet thingy.

Kathy found these online, on sale, and with free shipping. A mere hundred bucks for all three.

How could she resist?

I'm truly a veteran cheap furniture assembler. I've bought, assembled, used and discarded more of this type of furniture than any other. So Kathy knew that buying these three pieces wouldn't be a problem for me to put together in short order.

A piece like this is good for putting stuff in. Kathy accumulates a lot of stuff that's related to cross-stitching, an activity that she's very good at, blogs about, and enjoys very much. She's got a spare room upstairs that's filled with stuff in plastic tubs, a couple of dressers, and lots of boxes.

This one's a deep-shelf bookcase for the sun room. We've got an awful lot of books, and it's gotten to the point where even giving them away still yields enough left over for new bookcases.

The main bookcases we have get stuffed to overflowing after a few years, and so there'll come a point where putting them into order becomes a necessity. The most recent attack on them produced a huge pile of books on the floor. Kathy managed to offload quite a lot of them, but we still had too many that we wanted to keep.

The third piece, tomorrow's task, is a wider, shallow shelf bookcase that's going to go upstairs.

Of course, the great part of going through and putting all the books into some semblance of order every once in a while is re-discovering the ones you saved to re-read again, but then lost track of in the increasingly inaccessible mass of books. The one that delighted me to re-discover? ...Louis L'Amour's "The Haunted Mesa".

The leftover parts situation is an interesting phenomenon with this type of furniture.

I have a plastic box in the basement with my collection of this kind of leftover parts from earlier projects. The directions in these pieces will usually have an inventory list that, at the very outset, one should spend the time to verify actual parts against. There's no point in starting if all the parts aren't there. It only takes one missing nut or screw to ruin the whole day.

I never throw out extra parts. Every once in a while, it can make the difference between ending up with an unfinished project or maintining my status as a can-do Honey.