Saturday, May 3, 2025

Minimizing

Its obvious that my life isnt going to be what I imagined when I retired.  And as I was looking around, I spotted things that I truly don't need, just have a tad of memories.  And I thought I should get some boxes and get rid of stuff.  

But then I realized that my groceries come in bags, just use those! And I've been bagging things ever since.  Friday, I took a load of items to Goodwill:

98 DVDs, 89 CDs, 5 books, a few extra shirts, a roll of fabric and some pillow cases and a box of miscellaneous glassware.  One of them was a bottle that said Portugal on the bottom. It was dark green glass with a strange indentation. I bought it at a Junque Sale at church when I was about 14.  My guess is it was an old liquor bottle.  And other than just sitting on a shelf for all these years ... ??? 

There's still plenty more! But as I get older I realize that my daughter won't want to deal with stuff.  And neither will I if I need to move again.  Or when I move again!  

What is it that makes us hold on to things we dont really use?? Where does that come from? Maybe this new generation of disposable everything has a better handle on "stuff". 

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