Stuff

It’s been said that the fire extinguisher should be the only uni-tasker in your kitchen.

I saw a “watermelon knife” on a morning TV segment the other day.  It purportedly removes the seeds from the watermelon as it cuts.  For $25.  The way the knife is designed, there is no other thing this knife could possibly do besides cut watermelon.  Poorly, if i were to guess.

This watermelon knife symbolizes consumerism gone awry.  Of the need to buy more and more and more.  To measure your life based on the “stuff” you own. Just turn on an episode of “Mission: Organization” or “Hoarders” to see how extreme this can be.

In contrast, I found a great blog the other day where the guy posts photos and counts of every item he and his family own.  They traveled the world with a one-year-old.  With backpacks.

We can’t see out the back of the SUV when we go away for a weekend.

True confession time…..we have a lot of stuff.  More than we ought to have. We have storage spaces overflowing with crap.  The closet is crammed tight with clothes we seldom wear.  The path through the attic is narrow and treacherous.

We keep stuff out of fear (that we might need it in the future, that it might cost us more later, that we might forget where we came from), I mean, right now we have an extra CAR because of exactly that.  So yeah, we have some cleaning out to do.

Anybody want to buy a 1999 Grand Cherokee?  Low miles.  Runs great.