08-15-2020, 03:24 PM
Another moment of self reflection.
Okay since the lock down, I have spent way more time at home than usual. So why is my home becoming smaller and growing...."stuff"?!
I had a great idea about four years ago. My Mother had a bunch of stuff she had collected over her near ninety years that I do want to have to deal with. So I told her that all the things she has stuffed away in boxes and would make wonderful Christmas gifts, and she would be able to see her loved ones enjoy them while she was still alive.
She loved the idea and things were going well, until family members and loved ones started thinking it was a great idea to leave their priceless (only to the new owner) family heirlooms, with my Mother. After all she has done a good job of keeping them safe all these years.
Now under any category anywhere outside of my family, the majority of the stuff, would not even sell at a garage sale. Most are just tiny bits of memorabilia, that means nothing to anyone outside the family that has not heard the stories. They are always a huge hit at the family reunions and the favorite for the kids. They love rummaging around the boxes and asking to be told the history of the items, over and over and over. Especially the pieces that their mother or father are connected to.
I am seriously ready to downsize again. Being here too long is starting to make me feel cramped. I am not going to pay for storage for stuff that does not really belong to me, so after the lock down is fully over, I am going on a road trip. I will leave looking like Santa Claus and come back looking like the inside of my bank account.
Okay since the lock down, I have spent way more time at home than usual. So why is my home becoming smaller and growing...."stuff"?!
I had a great idea about four years ago. My Mother had a bunch of stuff she had collected over her near ninety years that I do want to have to deal with. So I told her that all the things she has stuffed away in boxes and would make wonderful Christmas gifts, and she would be able to see her loved ones enjoy them while she was still alive.
She loved the idea and things were going well, until family members and loved ones started thinking it was a great idea to leave their priceless (only to the new owner) family heirlooms, with my Mother. After all she has done a good job of keeping them safe all these years.
Now under any category anywhere outside of my family, the majority of the stuff, would not even sell at a garage sale. Most are just tiny bits of memorabilia, that means nothing to anyone outside the family that has not heard the stories. They are always a huge hit at the family reunions and the favorite for the kids. They love rummaging around the boxes and asking to be told the history of the items, over and over and over. Especially the pieces that their mother or father are connected to.
I am seriously ready to downsize again. Being here too long is starting to make me feel cramped. I am not going to pay for storage for stuff that does not really belong to me, so after the lock down is fully over, I am going on a road trip. I will leave looking like Santa Claus and come back looking like the inside of my bank account.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
