Moving In Together

She Said He Said Evince Magazine – August 2011 – Larry Oldham Dena Hill – Moving in Together

She Said

Getting married is truly an exciting time. Seeing my son
and his new wife gathering furniture, opening
wedding gifts, deciding where to arrange everything in
their apartment, hanging pictures and draperies, cooking
for each other, and touching each time they pass each
other in the kitchen brings back many fond memories of
when I was a newlywed. I'm not saying that you and I have
not shared the same good times and feelings, it is just
that marrying at an older age, brings on a lot of baggage.
I mean that literally not figuratively. In your case it
means a whole house full of baggage. This is not a
condemnation of you or your "stuff." When you close
down one house and move into another house there are
going to be issues. However, not many people have to
worry about where they are going to put eight thousand
books, or three thousand magazines, or four thousand
videos or one thousand collectible cars. Usually
it's just a few pieces of furniture, a couple of bookcases,
and your clothes. These are normal moving items when
you get married and move in with each other. I am not
against your collections and madness for keeping everything
you have ever owned, I just don't know where to put it.
I have wracked my brain about this and the only solution that
I can come up with is to buy a new house with a basement
and a attic. This way I don't have to actually live like
a "hoarder" and you can have a place to store your junk,
I mean collectibles in one area. We can have our cake
and eat it too; that is, if I can clear a path to the oven.

He Said

The beauty of being married again is having someone to
take care of me, to watch out for me, and to make
sure that my life is filled with nothing but sunshine.
I probably could have thought of buying a new house
on my own as a solution to my problem. The only bad
thing about that is that I don't recognize all of my
great collectibles as a problem. I think that since
you don't see how practical it would be to open a
museum after I have passed, that just have to persuade
you to enjoy some of my greatest treasures now.
Have you ever seen one of the earliest Polaroid Cameras?
Have you seen the first newspaper article about the
Sputnik Space Dog in 1957? Have you experienced the
first Beta movies and reel to reel taped music?
I didn't think so. You need to concentrate on making
room in your house for all of this good stuff. You don't
really need three bedrooms to sleep in, you don't need
all that basement area for old miscellaneous stuff from
your past, the dog doesn't need that whole room to
prance around in.
I am just saying that if we take all of my treasures
out of the storage place and lay them all out in your
house, you will grow to appreciate them and treasure
them just as I do. All of your furniture and knickknacks
from all over the world could be put in my storage
place and you would have a brand new house of important
things to look at. People from all over the world would
come to our house just to see our unique furnishings,
even if we had to sit on boxes instead of the sofa.
It would be like having the museum now instead of
waiting for me to die.
This is our golden opportunity. I told you marrying
me would bring importance into your life.