We have decided to minimalize our material goods while we wait to see where we will land in the next few years. We have already sold a bunch of stuff. This is a picture of Christian putting a bunch of the rest of the stuff on Craig’s List. It actually feels very, very good. The funny deal is that we are only really intent on keeping mementos, the homeschool and other books we have not already sold, photos and a few pieces of furniture.
Lorena is the queen of this sort of thing. I tend to be a little bit of a hoarder, but have decided that since we are downsizing anyway, it will be good to start from a lower baseline. Minimizing the material is something to which I have given thought over the years, but not to the extent that we did anything about it–not that Lorena would not have thrown out tons of my accumulated trash if I was not such a wimp about it. I think this is something to which I want to pay more attention. I think it is easy to go overboard on the minimalization, thing, too, but the happy medium is way below where we have been living so far.
Betty Blonde #273 – 08/05/2009
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