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The longer you live, the more ‘things’ bog you down — clean house!
By Gary | August 24, 2008
I come from a long family tradition of pack rats -- we accumulate things, fail to throw enough of them out or recycle them, and end up with "things" bogging us down. When I got married, I suppose my wife's personality and mine sort of meshed unconsciously that way, because she fit right into the family mold of not throwing anything out if it's still usable, despite replacing it and never really using it again.
As a result, our home of almost 30 years is getting, uh, cluttered. The battle against the clutter is never ending, because, sigh, it just hurts to get rid of our "stuff," even if that stuff has just become "thins" that bog down our lives and fill up our house!
Someday, of course, I expect to hit the jackpot -- either the PCH sweepstakes (probably) or a best-selling novel (maybe). When the jackpot comes in, we look around the old house, say so long to the memories, and call in the moving companies to deal with the big move into the Big House on the Hill.
Okay, in real life, that probably won't happen like that. We'll probably continue living here in the old family "homestead" until the kids get together and pay to put us in a nice "home," not necessarily on the hill. So what started all this rambling about possessions, clutter, etc.? We made some minor changes in computer hardware the last few days, meaning we had to move a very old, barely working computer upstairs until we can afford to dispose of it. In the process, we found tons of old boxes tucked away in a couple of corners and spent some quality time doing the sorting and mostly tossing necessary to clean out some of the clutter.
Baby steps ...
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