CLUTTER!

As I struggle to clear my finances, I am forced to wonder why I don't have much money in my savings account. I thought about it all day, even while cleaning the room where my computer is. As I dusted the Tv, VCR, DVD player, Playstation 2, and boombox, I mentally calculated how much money I have made in the last 10 years. Why don't I have anything to show for over $200,000?

I got into a bit of a mood, and started thumbing through my CDs, trying to find that one disc that matched my mood stacked somewhere in 5 stacks that were 30 high. Why can't I save money? Where does it go?

After rearranging the hundred or so DVDs after plucking out the 8 I wanted to sell on Amazon (see previous post), and seperating the twenty video games from them and putting them on a different shelf, I remembered that back in 2001 I spent 21 days in the hospital. Even though the $50,000 bill I racked up was forgiven thanks to the County's inidigent care plan, I was off work for almost five months. That must be why I don't have any savings.

As the music wafted through the room, I organized my computer desk, stacking a few games I had been playing halfheartedly into the already full cabinet on my desk. I picked up a couple of the books I had been reading, and spent 30 minutes trying to find a spot on one of the three bookshelves that have been double stacked. Then I double checked my Star Trek action figure collection, and put all 80 playmates figures into a box and onto an already overburdened shelf. I dusted the 8 Art Asylum Enterprise action figures, the Star Trek 3D chess set from Franklin Mint. Then I dusted the 30 Star Trek models i have built since the 80s.

For the life of me, I just can't figure out where my money goes.