In 2008, when I went to London, my friend Laquita and her husband cleaned my house for me while I was gone. Ever since then, I think Laquita watches me carefully for signs of being a hoarder. She was amazed that yes, I buy toilet paper and paper towels at Sam’s Club. I have good reasons for why I do the things I do.
First, I have an unnatural, illogical, unreasonable fear of running out of toilet paper. I know, it doesn’t make sense, I live alone. But, I don’t want to run out – I LIVE ALONE! I could be stuck for days, until someone came to look for me!!
Second, I am very messy! I go through LOTS of paper towels. I also usually take 1/2 of the rolls to my classroom! School paper towels are rough on the hands. (I heard a rumor that someone once discovered one of the ingredients in school paper towels is recycled cardboard!) Especially when my students are sick, I wash my hands frequently and I use paper towels. I prefer white, roll paper towels to brown, flat cardboard.
Today, while trying to clean some I found another reason why I might appear to be in the beginning stages of hoarding. I am not organized and loose things!!! I found a bag of glue sticks for my glue gun. Yay, I’ll put them with my glue gun. Imagine my surprised when I found yet ANOTHER bag of glue sticks. (And then, part of a third bag!) I know, it would appear that I could be hoarding glue sticks, right? I’m not, I just keep losing them and have to buy new ones because I CAN’T find the ones I already have!! I also keep a glue gun in my classroom and it is entirely possible that I purchased one of those bags to go to my classroom and it never made it.
I don’t think we need to call A&E yet! I think I’m safe for a while. I’m not a hoarder, I just am unorganized and clueless sometimes!!!
