I spent a week at my parents house helping them get things ready to sell it. This involved a bunch of cleaning and fixing little things around the house.A thought that keeps popping up( when you are an adult) is that you only finish the things on your house list when you are getting ready to sell the house. All those things that you put up with and put off are only addressed when you have that deadline. Or is it that you take care of the things when you know those outside critics are coming to look at your home? It may be a bit of both, that you are happy accommodating the nicks, scrapes and blemishes when it is your home, but need to clean them up, make it more presentable (to stage the rooms) to appeal to the person off the street. One of the things was a knob on the built in linen cabinet was missing. All the knob were glass, with a single one replaced with a ceramic knob from the old kitchen cabinets (the originals that were replaced in the 1980’s). When sorting thru the boxes in the attic, there was the glass knob, waiting 40 years to be put back in its place. Just waiting for the person with the will to finish this task off the list.

How much of our own personal, internal todo lists do we put off for other concerns? I kick a lot of things farther down on the list, in order to take care of other things. Is that similar to this? When are those looming deadlines for internal todo lists? And do we ever see them coming?

Now all the knobs match for the next owners of the house. Maybe it’s time for me to check my own list for something to finish…