SPOILER ALERT
If have not read Quiz #13. OOO and Pure O just yet, you’re about to read the answer to the “What did NOT happen?” question from that quiz.
Here’s the answer:
What did NOT happen?
Which one is NOT an obsession of mine?
A. I’ve used a Christmas grid for the gift exchange in our family. The gift-receivers are listed across the top row and the gift-numbers are listed down the side with the gift-givers listed in each square of the grid. Gifts from parents/Santa are spread out among gifts from siblings and off-spring. The gift-opening also proceeds in order of the grid, youngest to oldest. In this way, similar gifts are opened at the same time and the morning builds to the biggest gifts with accessories like batteries coming after the gifts for which those batteries might be needed;
B. Everyone in our family has assigned wrapping paper for Christmas gifts. The assignments are based on the gift-receiver so when you wake up on Christmas morning, all you have to do is look for “your paper;”
C. When I go to the grocery store (remember that?), I load my groceries onto the checkout belt in order. Big bulky stuff first, followed by refrigerated items, then frozen, produce, paper and finally cleaning products. I also like to bag my own groceries and get frustrated if the clerk or help bag my groceries get out of order. In this way, the big stuff doesn’t crush the small stuff, the refrigerated stuff can be the first things taken out of the bags when you get home and the cleaning products are separate from the food by the paper goods so your food doesn’t smell soapy;
D. I am obsessed with photos and have more than 80,000 images on Shutterfly, They’re backed up on slides, negatives, CDs, and a hard-drive in a monthly catalogue system of albums or folders for each month and year (2020-03, 2020-02, 2020-01, etc.) so that I can readily access almost any image I’ve taken or inherited from my father and grandfather’s slides which date back to 1940;
E. I am obsessed with my Doxie scanner that I first used for photos. Since brain surgery, I’ve used it to eliminate paper in the house. All bills and paperwork gets scanned and then tossed, the electrictronic images of each paper kept, again, in monthly catalogues on my hard-drive (which is backed up by Carbonite, a cloud-based back-up system).
I do love my Doxie scanner, but I have not started scanning documents just yet. I am still working on a backlog of printed photos. 1000 so far this month.
I am happy to report that the Christmas Grid is no longer operational. Color-coded wrapping paper for each recipient remains.
Want more?
Here’s the next quiz in the series: Quiz #14. Autocorrect.
Here’s the previous quiz in the series: Quiz #12. “Stayin’ Alive.”
Here’s the first quiz in the series: Quiz #1. Stella and Social Distancing, March 13, 2020
Here is an archive of all the quizzes.
The quiz is explained here: Steve’s Stay-at-Home Coronavirus Quiz.
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