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Our Ways Of Doing Things

Jul 16, 20246 min
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It REALLY hits after 50....you get set in your ways on how you do certain tasks.

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Oh yes, it's time for another fifty plus. I'm James Lott Junior. I have a client slash friend and organizing client slash friend who needs to move. She's been asked to leave her home of fifteen years that she was renting. And because the owners want you to sell the house, they would rather sell the house do the sale after she has moved out with her stuff. They don't want to have people come through the house or her stuff there,

and they just want to make an easy beezy cover girl. Right. My client is in her late seventies, and there's other things, and you know, there's are things going on. It's I'm like, obviously share with you guys on here. And obviously I'm not gonna say her name or where she lives. I mean, I know no one. I mean, she don't listen to this podcast or anything. So we're good good and and she and she also knows I do talk about some of my clients. I work with

my clients is part of teaching. So it's gonna get that out of the way. And this is not my this is not on my organizing show. It's just me venting to you guys out here because you'll see you in a second, Mary, So she needs to move and soue. But like I think she's having a hard time or maybe she knows or maybe you know, maybe she does get it and she's taking her sweet time. I mean,

something's going on. So I'm in urgency mode. I'm like, she gotta get out, so let's start packing shit up, let's get it together, let's like start organizing stuff. So i'one over there helping out. And the other day we were, we were. She has this beautiful artwork, a beautiful war all frames, so she wanted to do she went, I got brought bubboll wrap over and tape, and she wanted to tape up the artwork off the walls. So I didn't bring wide enough bobo wrap, so I

ended up being listen to to smaller pieces she has of all sizes. I mean, beautiful artwork, beautiful work, a love of African American art that I you know, I just love to pieces. So I went, yous good. So I'm sitting there being professional as I am, and I'm taping it up at the laugh and she's given me some side. I'm not gonna take you to my missas, Like I go, what's going on. She's

just looking. I'm like, I was gone at her. Thing was she felt I was using too much tape on the bubble wrap to tape up these nice paintings. And I was like, oh half I I said. It was so ironic for me as a professional organizer. I have clients. You think I don't use enough tape. They're like, nope, get back at that box about whatever. I need the corners they wanted tape to then degree.

So this is the first time ever I would have been in sixteen years, first time ever, I asked someone, go, you say, now, I got plenty of tape. She got plenty of tape. I get taped. I have tape out my ass Like, no, you don't you want me my I said to her. I was like, and she's really picking at me about it. I said, but I'm trying to make sure your stuff is really nice. And and also, as she mentioned my well,

just gonna go sit over here for a while and go. You don't get it in transport, movers drop stuff, things move, you have no idea. I want to make sure it doesn't break. These are nice paintings and nice class and nice frames. I'm being and She's like at the end, she was like, oh my god, it's so professional. Guy love it. But I'm just like, girl, you're nitpicking on tape. Where you gonna get the fuck out of there. We do going faster, like

we're going in a snails pace. It's we're super slow. And I'm like and I'm like, girl, we need a movie because I know the whole I know, like the full store. I know both sides of the store. I don't know they like I know the owners. I know her. It's like it needs it needs to be resolved, like yesterday. But I started laughing, and that is something fifty plus and sixty plus and seventy plus. It was people's peculiarities. We all have it. We all have stuff.

I mentioned later. I always re washed stuff. I don't care if you washed it yourself and you give me plates or dishes or whatever or glasses, how old you wash them. I think it's some nice courtesys you washed them. I'm sorry she got married, like I just wasted my time. But I'm like, well, we didn't talk about it. I didn't. I mean I didn't and ask you to wash them. It's like, I just I know they were the dustiest sitting in the cabinet. But I'm like,

I just it's a it's before I do it. I always do my own. Everybody washes differently. I saw the pandemic kids, people's houses. You're like, that glass is dirty, that fork is still dirty. That's not clean. I see people clean differently. So it's like, sorry, just it's not about It's not about you, It's about me. That's my eccentricity is that whenever I bring into my house, I rew wash it. And so as I said, well, now from now on, from going

forward with give me, don't you don't have to wash it. I will do it myself. But I was like, but we all have. But that's the whole point. We get older, get a little set in our ways. We all have our different things, right, That's kind of the funny part of it. I start laughing. It's like, I don't go crazy and get upset and start screaming and everything. But I'm just like, it's and I'm with her, with I love my clients, and with her,

my family and my mom. They all have their brother they have certain ways they do everything, and I do too. And I think that can happ when you're young too, but just as you get older, I especially fifty plus. I'm telling you it could be kind of comical, but also you're getting away. I'm James at Junior and it's fifty plus. Talk to you next time.

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