April 11, 2011

• Clutter

  Finally, everything has been moved and now, the entire basement is filled wall to wall with stuff. For the next couple of weeks, my goal is to go through everything and get rid of whatever I don’t need. I’m thinking of doing a yard sale of some sort and then just throwing away whatever I can’t sell.

  I’ve read many stories about people who sell almost everything they have, living on basic essential things. I’m not going to go as far as selling my camping gear (in case there’s a zombie apocalypse and I need to survive), but I have a proud collection of books as well as a large amount of CDs and DVDs. I’m sure there are other things I can get rid of like clothes and electronics.

  Last night, we spent a couple of hours cleaning up the kitchen. Although spotless, the cabinets were filled with junk. I was forced to make my mom make tough decisions. I could tell that I was stressing her out, making her choose two of the 10 or so empty glass containers she had put away, but forgot about for the last couple of years.

  I think we tossed out at least half of the stuff in there. I nearly rearranged what was left and I felt so much better. At that moment, I thought about the husband of a distant aunt of mine who was a hoarder–he keeps every single magazine and newspaper he has ever read for probably the past 40 years. Why he does that, I really have no idea, but I can’t imagine his place looking nice. I wonder how much pain my mother will go through when she sees me get rid of all the useless things we have.

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