Letting Go
With the prospect of packing up all my belongings and moving a mere seven months away, I've become more conscious recently of the amount of crap that I have. Today, I packed up a bunch of old clothes to give away and there was something almost cathartic about the process. I guess maybe I'm finally ready get rid of a lot of the things I've been hanging on to. I'm not a pack rat per se because I'm selective about the things I keep, but I do tend to keep a lot of things (ticket stubs, brochures, photos, boxes, etc...). I've come to realize that for a lot of that stuff, it's time to let go. And then there's all the furniture and house stuff. I'm probably going to move to a much smaller space so it's got to go as well. Anyone in the market for some furniture??A side effect of this new attitude towards "stuff" is that I'm generally appalled at some of the things that are for sale. Today at the grocery store for example, I noticed that for the bargain basement price of $149.99 you can be the proud owner of an 8 ft inflatable snow globe. WHAT? An eight foot inflatable snow globe? I can't imagine anything more unnecessary. The fact that such a thing is for sale or that there are Americans who would waste their money buying it sort of disgusts me. Yet there they were... at least 9 or 10 of them stacked up right by the registers waiting to be bought. Gross.
I know I'll always have too much stuff to do zen or feng shui or minimalism any justice, but for now it seems like the less I have, the happier I am. I'd much rather spend my money doing something than acquiring something.
posted by Anne @ 2:57 PM
2 Comments:
I do however, see the value of giant inflatable things as practical jokes. For the low low price of $59.99 I could get a giant inflatable turkey - very similar to your snow globe. Last year, I was going to buy this to put on my wife's brother's lawn, just for the humor value. I saw it again this year and thought about bringing it to Thanksgiving at your house, but my wife thought that you might not find it quite as funny as I would. Apparently, she was right!
Certainly not. No inflatable turkeys please. Do bring your ginger-snap crushing skills though...there's pumpkin chiffon pie to be made.
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