Cedar chests, stacking Rubbermaid bins, under-bed glider bins, good old bankers boxes, special little wooden boxes, good graycious, we sure have many choices for storage of stuff, don’t we?
Do you have boxes or storage containers that you’ve placed the really important items from your past in or maybe stuff you’re not using in your current life stage?
Well, if you do, you’re not alone. I do too!
I’d love to meet the person who is on a beach somewhere reaping the rewards for inventing those useful storage containers.
I’d walk up to them, shake their hand, offer them a tropical cocktail, and say, “Thank you for creating something that has taken me on the journey to maintaining and storing a plethora of stuff, aka, clutter. Stuff that I really don’t need and didn’t know what to do with, all because I WAS SUPPOSED TO STORE IT because my mom stored stuff like this, and so did my grandmother. Cheers to you, you are a freaking genius!”
Then I’d ask them, “Do tell me, what do you store in your containers?”
You know what they’d say, as they smile and chuckle at my question?
They’d ask me to sit down, enjoy a cocktail with them and then they’d tell me, “Oh silly you, I store nothing in them. That’s why I’m on a beach somewhere enjoying life! Life is too short to store stuff you don’t love, need, want or use. But since people do store stuff as a custom in their lives, I help them do so while I get to enjoy my life without all the clutter.”
UGH…SIGH…damn clutter customs, they are strange, aren’t they? My, oh my, those little storage containers help us be suckers to keep stuff we don’t love, need, want or use.
Good graycious – it is time to take the advice of your inner beach coach. Life is too short to hang on to clutter…! My quest this week is to find more ways to offload the strange little things I’ve saved all these years. Yep, I’m finding my inner beach coach who is encouraging me to let the stuff go. Cheers!!
