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Thread #114852 Message #2453824
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
30-Sep-08 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: October Seasonal de-clutter BIG push
Subject: BS: October Seasonal de-clutter BIG push
The seasons are changing, northern and southern hemisphere. As the earth/sun heating-cooling alignment takes place we all put some things away and take out others.
While you're doing this, look at everything else in that storage place. How many of those blankets zipped in a bag under the bed NEVER get used? How many of the sweaters on your shelf of warm stuff don't get worn any more? If you're clearing out your shorts and t-shirts to make room for those sweaters, how many of those t-shirts were not worn at all this summer?
Look around at the seasonal decorations. We have a flurry of activity coming up--decorating houses, yards, trees. I have too much stuff that I don't use. I need to either figure how to use it or pass it along.
It's late afternoon in the UK right now, so this isn't too big of a jump on the October thread. I've put links in for all of the earlier discussions because we've shared a lot of great ideas. We've been doing this for many months now. I can see a qualitative difference in my house and garage and yard, but those distinctions may still be lost of visitors who walk in and see my eBay stuff and my extra furniture and papers needing to be filed.
Some folks have dropped out; this may seem like a cause for some of us, but in today's world of excess, it is useful to keep one's eye on the ball and to learn to discriminate--how much of this stuff do we need, should we keep? What will we need later, what can we assume we might need that could become scarce? Should we be scared into keeping stuff we don't need because of that possible scarcity?
These are dangerous days for pack rats. The news might tempt some to hoard irrationally. Less is still more for the participants of this thread.