Our younger daughter and her significant other/soon-to-be-fiance/boyfriend, moved in with us a month ago; they're trying to save money, and paying rent is like throwing it away. Trying to make room for a lot of their stuff - fortunately, some of it is being stored at boyfriend's uncle's house, and some of the furniture is being loaned to his brother who just bought a house and has some empty rooms to fill - and still trying to find spots for all the stuff from my aunt's house that is still in boxes.  Argh.

Spent part of yesterday hauling everything out of an upstairs closet and purging to make room for other stuff.  Bought some new storage bins for the wrapping paper that must breed in the dark of the closet - now we have one bin for birthday/all occasion, one for Christmas, and one for tissue and ribbon and tags and gift bags.

It's kind of a case of "musical stuff," as when you move this to make room for that, and then have to move the other thing to make room for something else, eventually, something loses out, and off to the dump it goes.

Strangely satisfying to do this, but husband is in fierce-protective-don't-touch-my-stuff! mode, so that's a complication.  Will have to de-junkify him the way I used to get rid of toys and such the kids weren't playing with anymore: do it when he isn't around, and he'll never know it's gone.  Is that cruel?  I hope not, but if he hasn't needed it in 10 years, doesn't even know he has it, it doesn't have family history attached to it, what's the point of keeping it?

But, that would leave McLobbyist as the Centrist and Ritter as the "Liberal" Democrat?  That part just doesn't add up.  You could have a run-off between those two, I suppose, but I don't know who would run as the liberal.