paperclips
I won a battle Friday. I used paper clips from my desk at work.
Letting go, using up resources. Oh so hard.
I went most of last year without paperclips at work. Of course, all I had to do was go to the science department secretary and request them. They became a scarce item, scavenged as papers came through. Using them to clip packets of papers together for a joint chem/bio meeting was quite proper. I CAN replenish them.
See, if you have resources, or potentially useful items, you could possibly use them. Employing them for something now prevents their use later (opportunity costs!). (Also, all sort of corollaries to how owning a book means you possess the knowledge contained within.) There are so many thing with use left within them that are are unsuitable for Goodwill or which just need the right home. And discarding potentially useful items, even those for which you have no projected need, keeps things out of landfills, a proper and
eco-ethical way to behave. That is a major, disruptive thought.
Cleaning up the Crestline house, where so much wood "too good" to burn had decayed, has been a helpful lesson. But cutting the wood in our garage to burn in Jerry's workshop was only a stopgap.
Tossing, decluttering, purging. Freedom and space.
The war continues.
Letting go, using up resources. Oh so hard.
I went most of last year without paperclips at work. Of course, all I had to do was go to the science department secretary and request them. They became a scarce item, scavenged as papers came through. Using them to clip packets of papers together for a joint chem/bio meeting was quite proper. I CAN replenish them.
See, if you have resources, or potentially useful items, you could possibly use them. Employing them for something now prevents their use later (opportunity costs!). (Also, all sort of corollaries to how owning a book means you possess the knowledge contained within.) There are so many thing with use left within them that are are unsuitable for Goodwill or which just need the right home. And discarding potentially useful items, even those for which you have no projected need, keeps things out of landfills, a proper and
eco-ethical way to behave. That is a major, disruptive thought.
Cleaning up the Crestline house, where so much wood "too good" to burn had decayed, has been a helpful lesson. But cutting the wood in our garage to burn in Jerry's workshop was only a stopgap.
Tossing, decluttering, purging. Freedom and space.
The war continues.