If you have 5 extra minutes today, read this article about a performance art piece ending today in downtown Washington, DC.
Then reflect:
- Is it art?
- Do you have “enough”?
Quick article with lots of room for reflection
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Read the article, very interesting.
I’ve been telling myself I’ve got too much “stuff” for years, yet I kept buying things.
Now going through a nasty divorce, it’s difficult, but I’m pretty much letting him take whatever property he wants.
And I’m giving up extra. Stuff I had before we got married, because he’s an ass and because it’s cleansing.
Because I want to move somewhere smaller and I don’t want my son to think it’s a good thing to accumulate, amass, hord…
It’s very difficult to give things up. Things you paid good money for. Things you have assigned emotional signifigace to. Things that are ridiculas to own, like eight different kinds of liquor glasses and breadmakers. Just look at that Clean Sweep show. The biggest problem with that show is they get more stuff once they give their old stuff away. And now they have a better way to organize when they get even more stuff.
Oh well….
Anyone want a breadmaker??
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings.
Related, we are having a garage sale tomorrow. Our attempt to clean out boxes of accumulated things. It feels good to see all that stuff out for the sale – the more that disappears the better.
I refocus my need to amass things at collecting information. I continually add more and more PDFs, bookmarks, web pages, articles, etc to the hard drives of my many computers. It creates a clutter in my virtual space, but keeps things clear for the rest of the family.
Sorry, you can keep your breadmaker. We already got one that we’ll probably try to unload tomorrow.
OK, just to show you what a hypocrite I am, I need a small kitchen table (for the nook, to show the house better) and my little TV broke. All the people are red.
Got either of those?
And speaking of garage sales, I just spent my lunch looking at a few in Johnston (I really need that table), and I am convinced that rich people have the worst grossest crappiest crap that they think they can sell for top dollar.
They live in $300K houses and have garage sales, when they can donate their crap and get a bigger return by deducting the crap. So instead of wasting 3 days sitting outside in the cold/rain/unbearable heat, you spend 15 minutes calling the goodwill guy, they take it off your hands, you get a nice deduction, and a clean garage, and no nosey people who now know the outlay of your garage, and they like all the power tools that you aren’t selling…
My little rich people garage sale rant…
Sorry, no small kitchen tables and the one TV we have will probably stay here.
I’m with you on the rich-people-garage-sale rant. We went to some sales south of Grand last weekend. I’m always astounded how people think that because they paid a lot for something they can resell it for a similar amount. I don’t care that you paid $100 for that 80s-style framed print – you can’t expect to sell it on the garage sale circuit for $20. You probably couldn’t even sell it for $2.
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