I adore this! I often muse on how my life has come to this same realization.
Having lived mostly (by choice) in the extreme lower-income pockets of our "culture" (?)
with a fondness for saying ( to anyone who might be listening) that everything should just be free,
I am often in well-worn situations.
All my clothes are used and often used quite well! LOL Our food is mostly from local pantries.
95% of the furniture & household things we have we acquired at the Habitat "store".
I love my old highlighted and underlined books, with agreements & disagreements written in the margins! Other's might love them too as I have even sold some on Ebay, with images so ppl know what they are getting. I even love finding a great book that some other friend I will never meet in the flesh, wrote their contributions in the margins too!
Some days when I drive by the MANY "self-storage" units that are located everywhere in our rural area, I wonder why anyone ever needs to BUY anything? And what the heck they are saving in all these units that is so important that it cannot go live a full, happy life being used for what it was intended to be...
Being a perfectionist only leaves me with constant disappointment. Much better to make do and enjoy the energy that comes with things perpetually less than perfect, but once loved by others. I'm still on the learning curve, but then, I'm not much of a consumer anyway. We've lived in our house, the house we built, for 39 years now, time to begin the process of emptying. I hold something and hear "If it doesn't bring you joy, let it go. And then I think, but what of the joy it gave the one who gifted this to me?
hm... so true. Maybe that's how I thwarted any perfectionism I might have picked up from ole Momaroo! LOL. New stuff scares me! The few things I have that are new I sort of refuse-to-use so that I don't wear them out; there, that is the proof! (that I have the issue!)
Yes, the only keep what you really love motto can help a lot with clearing clutter for clarity! Nice way to think about the people who gifted you, but not enough of a reason to keep something that no longer suits. (for me)
I adore this! I often muse on how my life has come to this same realization.
Having lived mostly (by choice) in the extreme lower-income pockets of our "culture" (?)
with a fondness for saying ( to anyone who might be listening) that everything should just be free,
I am often in well-worn situations.
All my clothes are used and often used quite well! LOL Our food is mostly from local pantries.
95% of the furniture & household things we have we acquired at the Habitat "store".
I love my old highlighted and underlined books, with agreements & disagreements written in the margins! Other's might love them too as I have even sold some on Ebay, with images so ppl know what they are getting. I even love finding a great book that some other friend I will never meet in the flesh, wrote their contributions in the margins too!
Some days when I drive by the MANY "self-storage" units that are located everywhere in our rural area, I wonder why anyone ever needs to BUY anything? And what the heck they are saving in all these units that is so important that it cannot go live a full, happy life being used for what it was intended to be...
ho hum. (O:
Thanks again!
Being a perfectionist only leaves me with constant disappointment. Much better to make do and enjoy the energy that comes with things perpetually less than perfect, but once loved by others. I'm still on the learning curve, but then, I'm not much of a consumer anyway. We've lived in our house, the house we built, for 39 years now, time to begin the process of emptying. I hold something and hear "If it doesn't bring you joy, let it go. And then I think, but what of the joy it gave the one who gifted this to me?
hm... so true. Maybe that's how I thwarted any perfectionism I might have picked up from ole Momaroo! LOL. New stuff scares me! The few things I have that are new I sort of refuse-to-use so that I don't wear them out; there, that is the proof! (that I have the issue!)
Yes, the only keep what you really love motto can help a lot with clearing clutter for clarity! Nice way to think about the people who gifted you, but not enough of a reason to keep something that no longer suits. (for me)
You are so right. Maybe those things should simply be regifted to someone else! Ha!
keep the love goin'
yes thats a great idea!