Discussion Thread: Forever Projects

What’s your forever project? My wife Lola definitely has one. I could point out to her that we’ve completed everything we need to do for the day, the month, or even the year, and she would retort that we haven’t cleaned out the basement yet. It’s her white whale. I’m convinced that if we ever do actually get it organized, she’ll instantly die because she’ll have no unfinished business left on this earth. As for me, I pretend we don’t have a basement. A problem ignored is a problem solved.

I have my own forever project. It’s the wallpaper in our front room. The last owner started taking it down before he got divorced and was forced to sell the place. We figured we’d finish taking it down and put up new wallpaper right away. It’s been fifteen years, and we’ve made zero progress. In our defense, we hired someone to do it as part of a larger renovation. We even spent $1,500 on fancy wallpaper. Naturally, the contractor flaked before he got to the wallpaper portion of the renovation. I can …