h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's a good idea, but there's always the risk of coming home with Something Worse.

Hmmm, yes, good point

Of course there is also the chance of getting something better

Statistically it should be a 50/50 percent chance, right

But with boxes I'm not quite sure

I like the idea of swapping boxes.

*Deletes text on boxes*.

Look - this is probably very interesting.

We play for the presents. Dice. There is a secret amount of time. The dice is passed around. You make one throw, and if its 1 eye you can take a parcel - also from each other.

Curiously enough some parcels are more popular than others....

Actually I'll give you two boxes for the one you have sitting in you cupboard (or was it wardrobe?)

and you claim this to be a fair deal?

Two boxes for one?

*thinks*

How big are these boxes?

Knowing Tartaronne they are probably the size of a - each

...swap MY boxes??? With the house somewhere 1/10th full of them? I wouldn't dare.

Ahhh, come on - they are only boxes.

*flutters eyelids*

*gets a hair the wrong way*

*tries to salvage salty tears*

My boxes are light and interesting.

*daps teary eye*

I've got some boxes if we're trading boxes. My boxes scare me.

I had some boxes I dragged along almost thirty years - from moving out from Mum's as a teenager until moving in to my second home after I divorced. When I was to cut my living space into half for the second time in three years I had to get rid of everything unnecessary, as well as some necessary things as well i.e. my grand piano.

What's left now fit into a rather small shoebox and now I can't even remember where I put it... which probably is just another proof of how much you keep just in case.

Last year I was partaking in clearing out two houses previously inhabited by elderly relatives who had lived most of their lives in said houses. Gosh, how much people tend to keep... I've started to clear out my own stuff, and hopefully I eventually will get out of this semi letargic state I'm currently in and can continue.

I can relate to semi letargic