HVAC stops junk room madness
I don’t know what it is that makes me crazy about keeping useless stuff around.
But this is really one of my pet peeves for sure.
When I see some of the extreme cases of hoarding, it sort of validates my feelings about junk and getting rid of it. I don’t mind spending money on heating and cooling our home for our comfort. However, the HVAC equipment was not installed so I could provide a climate controlled environment for a bunch of junk. Interestingly enough, my wife tried to use the HVAC argument to defend what had clearly been a junk room in the making. We have a guest room on the second floor that gets lots of sun and is at the end of the HVAC ventilation. She’s right, it’s hotter in there than the rest of the house. However, to jump to the idea that it’s therefore only usable for storage is crazy. That just wasn’t going to happen on my watch. When I was a kid, I saw what happened when my mom had a junk room. It spawned other junk rooms and she kept all of this junk. It drove my dad nuts. So I took a preemptive approach and called the HVAC company. They came out and augmented our HVAC equipment so we were able to have zone controlled HVAC in our home. Now the guest room was wonderfully air conditioned like anywhere else in the house. My wife was thrilled with the zone controlled HVAC and gave up on the HVAC argument for using that space as storage. And that stopped the beginnings of junk room fever.