Tag: stuff

She doesn’t want her children to hate her after she’s gone

app screen
No app exists for making junk disappear, or even for identifying what to keep and what to purge.

 

Stunning, remarkable long-distance conversation this week.

She said she is dedicating the next year to clearing out her house of all the accumulated stuff.

She doesn’t want her children to hate her after she’s gone.

She has been quietly inspired by a book’s message that being decently organized is a personal responsibility and that no one should leave behind a crazy mess that others have to clean up.

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Getting there

quotes about giving
Give away as much as you possibly can

 

Getting there?

Getting ahead?

Getting to a place?

Overcoming a lifetime of collecting things?

Overcoming a lifetime of habits created to achieve social status?

Letting go or holding on?

Getting there?

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Are you an honor guard?

University of Iowa's Mascot Herky
Stand watch over your stuff and do not let it get out of control

 

This is a really easy post to dismiss.

Are you satisfied with your personal organization?

Why?

What would you do?

(assumed most of us answered ‘no’)

Personal organization reaches a pinnacle when we have very little left to organize.

It’s not like we get to take it with us.

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