Narrow Paths Through the Clutter
Most of us have, at one time or another-often when we're packing to move-looked around us and wondered how we got so much stuff. We promise that we'll get rid of some of it, and curb our acquisitional habits. But we don't give our possessions much thought, otherwise.
Then, someone posts an article like this one, and most of us shamefacedly examine ( Read more... )
Then, someone posts an article like this one, and most of us shamefacedly examine ( Read more... )
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As someone who has become more and more spartan - almost obsessively so (it's hard for me to let my [notably clean] C. drop his bags every weekend randomly on the floor, even though every other bit of space is (perfectly) occupied) - I found this doubly intriguing. I was a packrat - maybe on the verge of becoming worse - but through a combination of either genetics kicking in or not wanting to become like my eldest sister, there was a radical change that has only gotten more pronounced. Maybe it was living in Japan. Not that they weren't junky (hah! they are!), just as Americans can be. It was just hard to move with so much stuff!
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