Many Pack Rats adore pancakes due to their convenient stackability.

The Kiwi depicted in Day 28’s comic is in reality very lovely, not at all hideous as shown.  Also, it wasn’t too terribly awkward, really.   You guys are the best!

I’m not just saying that so I can come back and get more Skillet Street Food with y’all.  Really.

While we’re waiting for content to magically plant itself in my brain (or pencil, or wherever it goes), please enjoy this pack rat from a few years back.  I posted it on a previous blog dedicated to decluttering and packratism.  Here’s the blog entry that went with it:

OK, check this out. I was on the bus this morning reading Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You — and What to Do About It by Cindy Glovinsky when this idea hit me. It involves rewarding yourself for completing tasks, like putting away your clothes. Only you use M&Ms as the reward. You have a bowl of them sitting there, tempting you… And all you have to do is get up and clean/sort/put away/file/fix one thing, or maybe one group of things, and the M&M is yours. Who can eat just one M&M?? You’d be flying all over the house dejunking so you can get more tiny bits of precious chocolate. Plus, the flurry of activity will burn off those tiny M&M calories and fat.

Should I give this method a name, or just skip ahead and call it Failed Plan #27?

Mmmm…. chocolate…