Today I was cleaning out the part of my basement that is under the stairs. It is a tiny space, next to the water heater and can’t be used for much of anything useful – certainly not an actual closet. So I had put a lot of storage things into plastic tubs and stuck them under the stairs. I call it my deep storage.
So the water heater is pretty new and it’s working good – knock on wood. But I realized that it does not have an insulating blanket around ti. So I decided to get a blanket from Home Depot and the only way I could get to it and reach all the way around was to pull some of the tubs out from under the stairs.
It was pretty weird to pull out those tubs – I was worried about dining spiders. Around here we have a huge problem with brown recluse spiders in basements and garages. So, I was being all paranoid about being under the stairs and didn’t even notice that a cardboard box was teetering on the edge of the tubs. I bumped into it as I was turning around in the tight space and it fell over.
The box was full of old Playboy magazines. I was surprised because I didn’t even know we had any copies of the old Playboy magazines. It turns out that someone has been buying them in secret and stashing them in a box under the stairs without me knowing about it.
