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reflections on having too much stuff
Oct. 17th, 2006 11:36 amI'm taking Friday off to have a very large cleaning fit. I can't stand the state my apartment is in, and my weekends keep falling out from under me before I get around to doing anything useful. The cleaning fit list is 18 items long, so it really would take me most of the weekend to do it in and around other things. I can probably kill most of it on Friday if I'm good about it (and maybe the laundromat will be less crowded in the middle of Friday than it is on weekends).
Too bad trash day isn't until Monday; it's easier to get rid of things when I can put them in a bag, set them on the curb and they go away. (Or put them in a bag and toss them in a dumpster and they go away.) What usually happens is I put them in a bag, and the bag sits around and annoys me because it isn't trash day, and then when it is trash day I forget about the bag because it's been around long enough that now it's scenery and I'm used to it. I hate that.
The cleaning fit list is now 19 items long, because thinking about things that become scenery reminded me about the pile of clothes that don't fit.
One of my other problem piles is the pile of things I don't want but are still perfectly fine, and therefore I can't bring myself to outright throw them away. I could sell them if I wanted to go through the whole PayPal and Ebay hassle, or the Craigslist hassle, but I don't. (OK, so it really isn't that much of a hassle to post a notice under "free stuff" on Craigslist, put the stuff on the curb and forget about it. The problem is that I've seen people do that in my neighborhood before, and what happens is that somebody comes through and ruins half of the stuff, the other half gets rained on, and then you've got trash and CD fragments sitting around in the street.)
On the other hand, if I don't want the stuff any more, why am I worrying about what happens to it?
Too bad trash day isn't until Monday; it's easier to get rid of things when I can put them in a bag, set them on the curb and they go away. (Or put them in a bag and toss them in a dumpster and they go away.) What usually happens is I put them in a bag, and the bag sits around and annoys me because it isn't trash day, and then when it is trash day I forget about the bag because it's been around long enough that now it's scenery and I'm used to it. I hate that.
The cleaning fit list is now 19 items long, because thinking about things that become scenery reminded me about the pile of clothes that don't fit.
One of my other problem piles is the pile of things I don't want but are still perfectly fine, and therefore I can't bring myself to outright throw them away. I could sell them if I wanted to go through the whole PayPal and Ebay hassle, or the Craigslist hassle, but I don't. (OK, so it really isn't that much of a hassle to post a notice under "free stuff" on Craigslist, put the stuff on the curb and forget about it. The problem is that I've seen people do that in my neighborhood before, and what happens is that somebody comes through and ruins half of the stuff, the other half gets rained on, and then you've got trash and CD fragments sitting around in the street.)
On the other hand, if I don't want the stuff any more, why am I worrying about what happens to it?
