Where Does Stuff Come From?

There's a title to chew on for awhile. Go ahead. Tastes kind of bitter, honestly. Needs some pepper.

Anyways, my wife and I have recently engaged in the ancient tradition of "spring cleaning." Since we recently found out we're going to be stuck in the apartment for at least a few more months, we've decided that wading through piles of miscellaneous papers, video game cases, magazines, and lost dishes was not the best way to maintain our sanity and motivation to exist. So, we decided to get rid of some stuff.

We've only done one room so far, our office, which previously was non-traversable. Even the cat would look into the room and you could almost hear her saying "fuck THAT noise," as she decided sleeping under the bed was a better idea than braving ground zero. However, in our efforts to make the room usable once more, we made an astonishing discovery: we have a lot of stuff.

We're not just talking about "oh, you bought a few things and don't have room for them" kind of stuff, I mean "what the hell is this and where did it come from" stuff. We literally found items that neither of us could recall having seen before. My immediate assumption was that some stranger had broken into our house and scattered miscellaneous shit all over the place, waiting for us to find it. Like some demented tooth fairy.

Well, in one room, which is maybe 80 square feet, we threw out 8 bags of stuff and a desk. A FUCKING DESK, which was taking up space in our OFFICE. How the shit does that even happen!? I really wish I had the forethought to take before and after pictures, but alas, I have no proof of the miraculous transformation that took place, so you'll have to take my word for it. We knew we had made good progress once we had found the floor.

Today we continue this journey into our bedroom closet, and I wonder what the Junk Fairy has decided to sprinkle around there. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

UPDATE: 4/19/2012 So, as it turns out, after two rooms, we've thrown out over 15 bags of trash, and donated around 8 to Salvation Army. Holy crap. At least we're at a good spot where if we can maintain, moving out of here should be much easier than it would have been.