Death cleaning on Earth Day
Okay, we don’t plan to die any time soon but the GG spent the day getting rid of “clothing he hasn’t worn in 10 years” and other crapola. Some of it is already dumped off somewhere, other things are awaiting a last chance for people to adopt them. Do either of the beach urchins really want the mini “bread pans” (we think) The Commander absconded with when she retired from her high school home economics teaching career. (She HATED that the life skills classes she designed and taught were lumped under “home-ec” but we’ll go there some other day.)
It is hard to get rid of stuff. Those bread pans? They TUGGED at both me and the GG. Neither one of us will ever use them and I bet the beach urchins would not either. And truth told, I’m not even sure where the mini bread pans came from. Plus the beach urchins have their own stashes to get rid of some day. Why do we all buy so much stuff? Why do we all save so much stuff? I do not know. I wasn’t rich growing up but I wasn’t exactly poor either. It was waaaaay after the Great Depression. Dad always had a job and mom had a job before I was born and another (better) one later when Jimbo and I (and Tigger) were capable of being home alone for a while after school. That started when I was 10 and Jimbo was seven. Tigger was probably the adult at that time, at least in dog years.
You have to be in the right mood to fling things and I was not in that mood today. That meant I hung around feeling a little guilty that I wasn’t flinging my own crapola. But I have been on many of my own flinging episodes, beginning 20 years ago or so. I was feeling pretty good about myself then until my parents started dying and I inherited a lot of their crap. Yada yada. More recently I hardly buy ANYTHING (except food) but somehow the “stash” seems to continually replenish itself.
So the GG did a lot of good today but WHAT ABOUT THE BUSHES? Nothing. Already seemingly forgotten? Maybe we’ll discuss the bushes in another year or so? This is not a complaint. It’s just how things roll around here. LOLOLOL!
April 22nd, 2026 at 11:12 pm
I find that I have to be in the right mood to get rid of things. I was doing well in my garage and then lost steam. 🙁 And why is so easy to accumulate stuff and so difficult to get rid of it? I only take partial blame since I do have some of everyone else’s crap.
April 23rd, 2026 at 8:00 am
When I think about the mountains of crapola we are all (apparently) living with, I immediately think of the word “globalization.” I’m not sure that’s the cause of our crapola epidemic but until someone tells me otherwise that’s what I believe. We (Americans) have way too many places to buy way too many cheap, useful(?), entertaining (if only briefly) things. Do you guys have acres of storage units in your area? I do. And I have a feeling that these storage units are filled with the crapola that some people refuse to give up and agree to PAY to keep out of sight. Millions of people on the globe make a meager income from making all this crap (mostly in other countries), others make meager incomes bringing it to our country and then selling it (via Amazon often) to people who have the income. I’m not exactly complaining about this (although it sounds that way, doesn’t it?). I think (but am not sure) that millions of people are economically dependent on all this activity, and if the alternative is famine and civil war then I guess it’s a net positive. Insert emoji of me scratching my head.