It always seems that you have more things than you remember when you have to place it all into a truck and drive it away. When I first moved into my small house, it only took me one trip, and I was done . Only three years later, it took me two trips in my ten food U-Haul and about twelve trips in my brother-in-law's truck; I still had enough junk to fill and entire dumpster. Where did I get all this stuff from? It is not like we went to IKEA or to garage sales every two weeks. I am taken aback by the way all this junk seemed to increase over a short space of time.

After all that hard work, there is still all the cleaning I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. There are the grease stains on the flooring from your bicycle, those minor holes in the wall that need spackling, windows with mildew, a bathroom with even more mildew, And then there is the range top of the stove. Oh, please do not even let me get started on those drip pans caked with three years of accumulated grease and grime.

My theory on ovens was that they are all sort of self cleaning. I figured if I turned the burner on blast and let it burn long and hot enough, that it would magically incinerate all the muck beneath it. Not so my buddy, not so. I know the truth, the longer you leave those little drip catchers without cleaning them, the more hopeless it is to clean them. I even tried to soak them in the strongest degreaser I could find at the time, and left them soak for over 8 hours. It kind of helped, but not a lot, only taking off about one year's worth of crud off. I gave up and did the smart thing; I bought new ones.