We bought new living room furniture today and have decided to just get rid of all the clutter that keeps us imprisoned in our very home. Yes, sounds like a tv commercial and with that in mind, read on...
Hello. I am an average person just like yourself. Wait, no I'm not. I'm better than you. It makes me feel good to say that. Deal with it. Anyway, are you tired of being imprisoned by the clutter that fills your home? Do you lie awake at nights wondering why you have all of those needless books and artifacts? Is it really nescessary to hang on to an ugly replica of the Nina, Pinta and/or Santa Maria?
Then you need to get rid of it. You need to seize it, toss it and release it back into the world where you don't ever have to deal with it again. Sure, it still will be taking up space but NOT in your home.
Rest assured, the other people or persons who will have to deal with it will do so as best they can. It's your job to dump it upon them.
You can do this in many ways. You can toss it in the dumpster knowing that some creepy dumpster diver will find it and make use of it even if it involves most of your tossed items ending up scattered about the back alley. You can also load it all up in your car and toddle down to the local Salvation Army or resale shop. Dump it on them. They are odd in that they welcome all of this crap. They will take it dust and all and stack it up about their moldy store and let people peruse to their hearts delight. Only they will know what will eventually become of your stuff. It's in their hands.
Your hands: washed clean.
Their hands: filled with your crap.
See?
Yes, it's hard to give stuff up. We have all been raised in a way that makes us attached to inanimate objects. We have a sick notion that all of this stuff loves us in return. For example, all of those magazines you harbor are your friends, right? You may one day cut out the articles you've ear-marked or you might be so bored one day as to read them over again. Even if they become musty and out of date and make you feel really old when you re-read them and realize how old Melanie Griffith has become. Toss the Peoples and the Us's. Toss the Time Outs and Entertainment Weeklies. If you ever want to stay connected with the information in them you can always turn to the internet. And if all of that fails, when then, all of that senseless garbage information will be gone for good. And that wouldn't be such a bad thing.
We just finished going through hundreds of books. We got rid of about half of them. Most of the ones we got rid of where ones that we had BOUGHT at the Brown Elephant. So they are used used books. Boy will they be looked down upon when they return to where we got them. A junk stores JUNK!
Next we are going to start moving furniture down into the basement. That's going to be the worst part because I am a lazy ass. It will not be fun. We will both argue and grumble, but we will HAVE to get through it in order to complete our task today. Another scary part of the day will be going through the spare bedroom closet or rather, black hole. Makes me shiver to think about it.