At 9am this morning, there was a knock on the door.  It was our carpet installers, here to install new carpeting for our downstairs floors.  For the past week, I had been working like a mad-man (or mad-woman) to clear off tables, empty bookcases and clean out cabinets so that the installers would be able to move the furniture in preparation to laying the carpeting.  Of course, it doesn’t help that our furniture is HUGE, a carryover from our days in a 14 room house.  Even though we sold, gave away, threw away LOTS of STUFF when we downsized to a small 6 room townhome, everything we have is BIG.

After the carpet installers came in, they spent an hour moving much of the furniture to other places (outside patio, garage) and they began measuring the floor so they could determine how the carpet should be laid.  When they went out to their truck to call the carpet store and were gone for quite a while, we began to worry.  And, as it turns out, we had good reason to worry.  When they returned, it was to tell us that the man who had done the measuring (from the carpet store) had under-measured the length of the living room by 2 feet!!!!!!  So, they had to move back all of the furniture and the carpet store is ordering a new length of carpet to be laid next Tuesday.  How frustrating!  Will I put back all of the books, knickknacks, and other STUFF that I had boxed up and put in the garage? You bet I won’t! 

I’ll wait at least until the carpet is down on the floor.  And maybe, if we haven’t needed the STUFF by then, we actually don’t need it at all. 

That’s one way to get rid of clutter!

I’d love to hear other carpet installation horror stories…perhaps it will make me feel better.