STUFF!!!...yes it's all the things that we accumulate over the years - and before we know it - it's either taking us over or we just throw our hands up in the air wondering where to start to do a massive clean up and get rid of some of it....well that's usually the plan huh...but yep!...even that goes totally awry at times!
Which is what I'm going through right now!
You see for me 12yrs ago I didn't have ZIP! Unfortunately after meeting a very unscrupulous character - to cut an extremely long story short - he fleeced me and my son for nearly everything we had - and *sigh* suffice to say tis a reason I am extremely wary of people and their intentions...
Oh damn!...and I thought therapy had worked!!..lol
Ok - cut to the chase - come forward 12yrs - and well - my accumulation in regards to my craft has gone through the roof!
I've been saying for weeks now about to doing yet again - another mass clean-up of my studio - which by-the-way - looked quite ok some 4mths back...here's a pic to prove it...
Well put it this way...this gleaming almost tidy studio didn't last long at all!
Through sheer unadulterated CBF frames of mind - tidying up after I made something went to the dogs. Add to that having one very active, hurricane-on-legs 19mth old grandson who is into everything! come and stay, saw numerous things that could be "thrown, broken, shaken, piffed, tossed, trampled-on" etc removed from his reach and yep!...you got it - the safest place for them was in my studio!!
So the *dumping ground* got larger and larger...and in this past week every time I look around yet more *STUFF!!* seems to be multiplying at a rapid rate of knots...'xcuse the pun!. *grin*
Well - today was *D-day* - meaning *De-stash Day*.....HA!!! yeh right! Or so I thought it would be *D-day* - until I started going through things and I realised that I have stuff sitting in here that I haven't touch nor used in almost 10yrs!!
Hmmm!..I come from a family whereby *hoarding* has happened and I rued the day when I too could be slapped into the same category - but when it comes to shoes - clothes and things within my studio....OMG!! I'm a hoarder!
Actually - think I'll stick with what was said to me some years ago - I accumulate things because so much was *stolen* from me that I feel the need to replace it to feel ok....oh K-rap!..even that sounds bad!!...LOL
All this has got me to thinking, do we get things because we actually need them or because we just want to say we *own* them? You know - does our *STUFF* very much become almost like a status symbol and define us?..and that if we don't *have it* we feel we aren't able to join in conversations about said *STUFF* ???
Or are we just kidding ourselves by having all this *STUFF* - and giving ourselves a false sense of reality in the vain hope and probability that *some day it will come in handy*!!???
So am I alone on this - or do you too suffer the same or a similar type of fate?? By all means please leaves comments, would love to know how this affects others.
Other than that and till next time...remember....keep smiling - it's FREE!
cheers
Which is what I'm going through right now!
You see for me 12yrs ago I didn't have ZIP! Unfortunately after meeting a very unscrupulous character - to cut an extremely long story short - he fleeced me and my son for nearly everything we had - and *sigh* suffice to say tis a reason I am extremely wary of people and their intentions...
Oh damn!...and I thought therapy had worked!!..lol
Ok - cut to the chase - come forward 12yrs - and well - my accumulation in regards to my craft has gone through the roof!
I've been saying for weeks now about to doing yet again - another mass clean-up of my studio - which by-the-way - looked quite ok some 4mths back...here's a pic to prove it...
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| OMG!!...clean!! ....but not for long!! *sigh* |
Through sheer unadulterated CBF frames of mind - tidying up after I made something went to the dogs. Add to that having one very active, hurricane-on-legs 19mth old grandson who is into everything! come and stay, saw numerous things that could be "thrown, broken, shaken, piffed, tossed, trampled-on" etc removed from his reach and yep!...you got it - the safest place for them was in my studio!!
So the *dumping ground* got larger and larger...and in this past week every time I look around yet more *STUFF!!* seems to be multiplying at a rapid rate of knots...'xcuse the pun!. *grin*
Well - today was *D-day* - meaning *De-stash Day*.....HA!!! yeh right! Or so I thought it would be *D-day* - until I started going through things and I realised that I have stuff sitting in here that I haven't touch nor used in almost 10yrs!!
Hmmm!..I come from a family whereby *hoarding* has happened and I rued the day when I too could be slapped into the same category - but when it comes to shoes - clothes and things within my studio....OMG!! I'm a hoarder!
Actually - think I'll stick with what was said to me some years ago - I accumulate things because so much was *stolen* from me that I feel the need to replace it to feel ok....oh K-rap!..even that sounds bad!!...LOL
All this has got me to thinking, do we get things because we actually need them or because we just want to say we *own* them? You know - does our *STUFF* very much become almost like a status symbol and define us?..and that if we don't *have it* we feel we aren't able to join in conversations about said *STUFF* ???
Or are we just kidding ourselves by having all this *STUFF* - and giving ourselves a false sense of reality in the vain hope and probability that *some day it will come in handy*!!???
So am I alone on this - or do you too suffer the same or a similar type of fate?? By all means please leaves comments, would love to know how this affects others.
Other than that and till next time...remember....keep smiling - it's FREE!
cheers
