tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post3216335048901861285..comments2023-08-03T07:25:18.861-05:00Comments on Stremmed Out: The Imperfectioniststremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607081379914875059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post-15824713719716975122007-04-11T13:51:00.000-05:002007-04-11T13:51:00.000-05:00I started finding true happiness once I started le...I started finding true happiness once I started letting go of all my stuff. So far I've cleared out (garage sales, donations, etc) HUGE quantities - easily a hundred boxes if I really added it all up. I still feel like I've got too much, but it was a good start and my life feels lighter. <BR/><BR/>This past weekend I started cleaning out 3 huge boxes of stuff my mom gave me when she moved a few months ago. She claimed it was "my" high school stuff, but it turns out none of it actually belonged to me. (Mostly duplicates of pictures of nothing special no one remembers taking.) I've taken great pleasure in throwing most of it away, and will take even greater pleasure in doing something special with the few pieces that are actually valuable (like portraits of my great-grandparents). <BR/><BR/>I kind of felt like those boxes were an allegory for the whole concept - the really important things got lost under all the stuff.ShesAlwaysWritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04243898033808557580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post-47467355789399582802007-04-05T23:37:00.000-05:002007-04-05T23:37:00.000-05:00AMEN!!!!AMEN!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post-58237452119347184702007-04-04T21:59:00.000-05:002007-04-04T21:59:00.000-05:00Stuff, stuff, stuff: we hold to so much of it and ...Stuff, stuff, stuff: we hold to so much of it and keep it safe because it "means" something to us...While I am one of those who throws away everything but those lipsticks that I'll never wear, Materialism is at the heart of our culture and would do better were it at the pinky toe. Look at Christmas, what is intend to celebrate the birth of our Savior turns into who can put the most junk in their front yard....<BR/>I do think it is good to have enough of the basics of company - because you never know when you could be entertaining angels unawares, but overall give most of the junk to goodwill and then follow the Lord a little closer because you don't have so much to distract you. :)Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05814864743807777464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post-54078647986906199182007-04-03T15:57:00.001-05:002007-04-03T15:57:00.001-05:00wow, that was really too long...wow, that was really too long...Danihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139891987615911595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32201214.post-67795091053546224822007-04-03T15:57:00.000-05:002007-04-03T15:57:00.000-05:00I don't agree with alot he says, either. I like c...I don't agree with alot he says, either. <BR/><BR/>I like certain colors, they are cozy, and if I'm going to spend a fair amount of time at the apartment, I want to enjoy the place. It is a place that will do for now, because one day we want to own our own place, but it will do if that day is in a year or in ten.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy crocheting and sewing for others, so I have a large assortment of yarn and scraps for blankets and such. On our gift registries we picked lots of towels and kitchen stuff, cause I hope to be able to keep lots of PBs, and at very least my brothers in the summer if they want to come down.<BR/><BR/>There are things that I have that I should probably chunk. I love books, and don't like to let them go. Some are great text books, that work with other research and some I have had since second grade, that perhaps a bookwormy daughter might enjoy as much as I did. I have a hope chest full of letters, and things I have writen. I have no expectation that they will be of any value to a historian or that they will be of any interest to anyone, but I don't want to let them go.<BR/><BR/>However, I've already been looking around my room, and wonderin if I will carry all of these things with me, when I get married, and I believe some of them, will have to go.<BR/><BR/>He's right that contentment doesn't come from stuff, but that doesn't mean you can't live comfortably or that you should seek to only own 55 items. If that makes you happy go for it, as for me I want lots of towels, and I want people to feel welcome to drop by.Danihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139891987615911595noreply@blogger.com