We all have some. “We”, is a collective word, meaning people in general. Not necessarily our family.
Some, we swear that we cannot do without.
Some are precious.
We buy things made of ceramic, and crystal and pewter and place it on a shelf and it stays there. I knew a lady in Germany who collected expensive Lladro statues. She had hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of them all over her government quarters. Then she had a fire, and most of them burned up. Do you think she actually missed those things?
Possessions.
We have clothes in 6 different sizes: High school, single-premarriage, after marriage, maternity, after baby, and shlumpy house clothes.
We swear we may need them all again, so we keep them. I was a size 7 in high school. I’m a 12 now. I know I will never be a size 7 again. I had 4 kids. The longer you keep maternity clothes around, the more you think about having more of those little suckers. I had a PURPLE cordoroy jumper for maternity wear. At 9 months along I called it my “purple pig outfit” I never want to see that thing again.
We have approximately 10 billion plastic containers in the kitchen, with only 3 matching lids. There’s tupperware, then, there’s cheaper ware. If you give tupperware to your husband or your kids for lunch, you will never see your 12.00 sandwhich keeper again. Now, they sell sandwhich keepers in the grocery store five for 3 bucks.
Tupperware Sandwhich Keeper
Ziplock keeper
We have books we read once, shelve, and never touch again. What fun is there in reading a book twice, unless it’s a reference book, or something you need for a report. Pass those on to the library, the hospital, or the kid’s school.
We have our kid’s toys, burger king and mcDonald’s kid’s meal extravaganzas. Can we say unnecessary plastic consumption? How many toys end up on the bottom of toyboxes? (because gravity pulls all the little hard plastic junk to the bottom along with the broken crayons and the hair barrettes!) Once when I worked at a food mall I tried to give a kid’s meal toy to the child in line, but his dad intercepted it. He bluntly told me: “Just what we need, another piece of plastic crap”
We have mismatched plates, silverware and glasses~I have 3 mcDonald’s Shrek glasses. They’ve outlasted every glass I’ve owned. The kid’s broke all the rest. I try to resist buying plastic cups, because no matter how cute they are when you buy them, they end up looking like yard sale fodder in 2 months.
Some people have kid’s clothes they wore when they were 4, and they are now 16. ~Again—The more you look at baby clothes, the more you want another kid.
Possessions. When I started unpacking, I found it odd, that our family had done well without all these possessions, for 2 straight months. We didn’t miss a thing except our furniture.
Not denying anyone the right to their “stuff”
I’m just sayin’.
P.S.~If you want to get rid of your Crap, go to www.freecycle.org and learn about how you can both obtain more crap, and give away your useless crap. This is available in United states only.
A more fun site to trade internationally with people, consider this a great learning experience and cultural exchange amoung different countries.
www.gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com
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