Oh yes, it's time for another fifty plus. I'm James Lott Junior.
I have a client slash friend and organizing client slash friend who needs to move.
She's been asked to leave her home of fifteen years that she was renting.
And because the owners want you to sell the house, they would rather
sell the house do the sale after she has moved out with her stuff.
They don't want to have people come through the house or her stuff there,
and they just want to make an easy beezy cover girl. Right. My
client is in her late seventies, and there's other things, and you know,
there's are things going on. It's I'm like, obviously share with you
guys on here. And obviously I'm not gonna say her name or where she
lives. I mean, I know no one. I mean, she don't
listen to this podcast or anything. So we're good good and and she and
she also knows I do talk about some of my clients. I work with
my clients is part of teaching. So it's gonna get that out of the
way. And this is not my this is not on my organizing show.
It's just me venting to you guys out here because you'll see you in a
second, Mary, So she needs to move and soue. But like I
think she's having a hard time or maybe she knows or maybe you know,
maybe she does get it and she's taking her sweet time. I mean,
something's going on. So I'm in urgency mode. I'm like, she gotta
get out, so let's start packing shit up, let's get it together,
let's like start organizing stuff. So i'one over there helping out. And the
other day we were, we were. She has this beautiful artwork, a
beautiful war all frames, so she wanted to do she went, I got
brought bubboll wrap over and tape, and she wanted to tape up the artwork
off the walls. So I didn't bring wide enough bobo wrap, so I
ended up being listen to to smaller pieces she has of all sizes. I
mean, beautiful artwork, beautiful work, a love of African American art that
I you know, I just love to pieces. So I went, yous
good. So I'm sitting there being professional as I am, and I'm taping
it up at the laugh and she's given me some side. I'm not gonna
take you to my missas, Like I go, what's going on. She's
just looking. I'm like, I was gone at her. Thing was she
felt I was using too much tape on the bubble wrap to tape up these
nice paintings. And I was like, oh half I I said. It
was so ironic for me as a professional organizer. I have clients. You
think I don't use enough tape. They're like, nope, get back at
that box about whatever. I need the corners they wanted tape to then degree.
So this is the first time ever I would have been in sixteen years,
first time ever, I asked someone, go, you say, now,
I got plenty of tape. She got plenty of tape. I get
taped. I have tape out my ass Like, no, you don't you
want me my I said to her. I was like, and she's really
picking at me about it. I said, but I'm trying to make sure
your stuff is really nice. And and also, as she mentioned my well,
just gonna go sit over here for a while and go. You don't
get it in transport, movers drop stuff, things move, you have no
idea. I want to make sure it doesn't break. These are nice paintings
and nice class and nice frames. I'm being and She's like at the end,
she was like, oh my god, it's so professional. Guy love
it. But I'm just like, girl, you're nitpicking on tape. Where
you gonna get the fuck out of there. We do going faster, like
we're going in a snails pace. It's we're super slow. And I'm like
and I'm like, girl, we need a movie because I know the whole
I know, like the full store. I know both sides of the store.
I don't know they like I know the owners. I know her.
It's like it needs it needs to be resolved, like yesterday. But I
started laughing, and that is something fifty plus and sixty plus and seventy plus.
It was people's peculiarities. We all have it. We all have stuff.
I mentioned later. I always re washed stuff. I don't care if
you washed it yourself and you give me plates or dishes or whatever or glasses,
how old you wash them. I think it's some nice courtesys you washed
them. I'm sorry she got married, like I just wasted my time.
But I'm like, well, we didn't talk about it. I didn't.
I mean I didn't and ask you to wash them. It's like, I
just I know they were the dustiest sitting in the cabinet. But I'm like,
I just it's a it's before I do it. I always do my
own. Everybody washes differently. I saw the pandemic kids, people's houses.
You're like, that glass is dirty, that fork is still dirty. That's
not clean. I see people clean differently. So it's like, sorry,
just it's not about It's not about you, It's about me. That's my
eccentricity is that whenever I bring into my house, I rew wash it.
And so as I said, well, now from now on, from going
forward with give me, don't you don't have to wash it. I will
do it myself. But I was like, but we all have. But
that's the whole point. We get older, get a little set in our
ways. We all have our different things, right, That's kind of the
funny part of it. I start laughing. It's like, I don't go
crazy and get upset and start screaming and everything. But I'm just like,
it's and I'm with her, with I love my clients, and with her,
my family and my mom. They all have their brother they have certain
ways they do everything, and I do too. And I think that can
happ when you're young too, but just as you get older, I especially
fifty plus. I'm telling you it could be kind of comical, but also
you're getting away. I'm James at Junior and it's fifty plus. Talk to
you next time.