5 Minutes for Mom

Tackle It Tuesday

| By

Tackle It Tuesday Meme

Click here to get the banner code and start tackling.

This may not be the biggest tackle…

But boy is it overdue!!!

What is the expression about the shoemaker’s children having no shoes??? I am not sure how it goes – but I do know it is pretty accurate sometimes.

My husband is an electrician, but a few years ago (maybe more I have lost count) the light in our bedroom burned out.

“So just change the light bulb Janice – you don’t need an electrician to do that do you!” you are probably thinking.

But it wasn’t so easy. Somehow (I think due to my husband who is too strong for his own good – or perhaps it is the light fixture’s fault) the light fixture got wedged on too tight to undo. Even my strong husband (who probably put it on too tight in the first place) could not, for anything, undo it. The only solution was to break it off and replace the light fixture.

Enter the problem of procrastination and the story of the electrician’s wife who lived in the dark for many years…

Yes – my dear husband never did manage to remember to buy a new fixture and get around to installing it. (Life is busy – and sometimes these tiny tackles just get brushed aside.) So, for years I have functioned with our bedside lamps for light. And then – now it gets really pathetic! – one of those lamps broke and we threw it out. I was down to my one bedside lamp for the entire room. Granted our bedroom is not very big – but good grief – it was dark in there!

But the day finally arrived! My husband – spurred on by our huge list of tackles and millions of trips to Home Depot – decided to change the fixture in our bedroom! He is doing a bunch of electrical work right now in the house as we renovate, so it was part of his project list – finally! He actually changed the light fixtures in all the bedrooms. (They were all the same poor fixture as the one in our bedroom that didn’t throw much light anyway.)

As he walked upstairs, armed with a hammer, gloves and a rubbermaid, he called out to me, “If you want a tackle, grab your camera…” (He knows me too well!)

And so I did. This was a long awaited day!

Here is the show:

Darkness:

tt-light-before.jpg

Destruction:

tt-light-phil-breaking.jpg

The Ruins:

tt-light-pieces.jpg

The New Beginning:

tt-light-wires.jpg

LIGHT!!!

tt-light-after.jpg

I must say I am thrilled! I can’t even believe it when I walk into my room and can actually hit the light switch and see! Thanks Phil – I love it! 🙂

What are you tackling? Link up and show off.

————–
Tackle It TuesdayRemember if your next tackle is a tough one… You can Ask Our Organizer Jessica for advice.

She’s a professional organizer and we’re fortunate to have her write a monthly “Ask The Organizer” column here on “5 Minutes for Mom”.

————–

Join Us For Tackle It Tuesday

We’re making housework blog-able!

Each week on Tuesday, we are posting before and after pictures of a project or trouble area that we tackled this week.

Find out more about Tackle It Tuesday here.

The project can be little or big – whatever you want. Basically, Tackle It Tuesday is about giving ourselves incentive, deadlines and satisfaction in getting our household tasks done. (It doesn’t even have to be housework… just whatever is on your To Do list.)

If you tackled a project this week, just add a comment and add your link below.

Comments

  6. Speaking of shoes! Thanks for reminding me! All 3 of my kids need new church shoes. When we went Sunday they almost had to go barefoot!

  7. Only thing getting tackled here today is packing….for our beach trip…which starts tomorrow…….gotta get back to it!

  10. that’s a great tackle!

    it’s funny how true that saying really is. for example my husband is a graphic artist and has been planning to help me with my websites for… let’s see… how long have we been married? LOL!

  11. I am loving TACKLE IT TUESDAYS and if I had a working digital camera today you would see our project today is the clean up from the after math known as HOT WATER HEATER EXPLOSION!

    Hey ladies, my blog is having it’s very first contest!!! I am giving away CANDLES! go on over to check it out!

  13. Sometimes it’s the littlest things that make the most difference! Glad he finally got it replaced and you have light again! 🙂

  14. We have a light situation in our bedroom too! We bought a ceiling fan to put in earlier this summer, and when my hubby pulled the light fixture out he found a suprise in the wiring (and the light is still not back in place). So, now we have to run new wire and have my dad help us so we don’t electricute ourselves or burn the house down! Gotta love men and their procrastinations.

  15. Now that’s great. I really won’t be too comfortable staying in the bedroom with only the lamps working. Glad you’re light’s already replaced. I bet you could see much clearly now.

  16. Oh hooray for you! I hate our house…the only rooms with overhead lights are the kitchen and bathroom…so our whole house just seems dark.

Trackbacks

  2. […] Current Mood: I’ve got an Idea!So…..now that we are back into a routine (I am SO trying to stick with a routine now that school has started) I want to get back into routinely posting my usual on Tuesday – the housework I plan to tackle for the day!  First off it’s the usual mounds of laundry down in the basement.  I had most of it caught up, but then after our weekend away of camping it’s piled back up to the rafters.  That and we are in need of clean towels…..even the back-up drawer of beach towels is empty!  Tackle number 2 today will be to try to get some swiffer time on our oh so dusty floors upstairs.  Orginally I was going to wait until the remodel on Clare’s room was done to clean the upstairs……especially since it was going to be a mess with putting a new piece of drywall up.  Well…..we’ve waited on a contracter to come look at our roof twice now (last week he was a no show, yesterday he did show…..however without a ladder!)  I am ready to call someone new.  Back to the tackle, I was going to wait to clean…..why clean when you’re going to make a bigger mess, but since our contracter has faultered and our home equity loan came back as a bust (see Brad’s previous post on our utter disgust over the MI economy) I think it’s time to clean up some of the dust bunnies I’ve begun to name as pets.  To see what others are tackling head over here. […]

Recent Posts

Categories

Disclosure Policy    |     Terms & Conditions
© 5 Minutes for Mom
5 Minutes for Mom is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Pinterest is Our FAVORITE!

Find and Follow Us at
pinterest.com/5minutesformom

Connect With Us