This may have already happened to you. If it hasn’t happened, someday, I promise you, it will.
When we start our lives as adults, living alone, most of us have very little in the way of possessions. Some may start out with their dorm room furniture; a tiny little refrigerator, a table, place settings for two people. (Really, who cooked and you couldn’t squeeze dinner guests in that little room!)
Maybe you lived at home until one day you set out on your own taking your childhood furniture, your books and clothes. What seemed like so much stuff crammed into your bedroom at home looked lonely and empty in a three room apartment.
If you left home, a dorm room or a tiny apartment and bought a home, suddenly you had a TON of space! If you were fortunate to get married during this latest transition to bigger space, you may have accumulated three or four toasters and a couple of blenders from the well-wishers who wanted to help you set up housekeeping.
In any case, what appears to happen to most of us is a rather mad desire to accumulate possessions. If you are poor, your possessions may not be so grand, but the instinct to amass “stuff” still ranks up there with the basic needs for food and shelter. We’ve become so attached to our belongings that whole industries have sprung up to accommodate us! We’ve made people, who own companies producing storage containers, wealthy! We’ve devoted enormous swaths of land, filled with long narrow buildings, some of which are heated and cooled, in which to store our “stuff”!
Perhaps the worst offender is the accumulation of electronics. Constantly improving video games, telephones, computers and gadgets are cheap and plentiful. This need to possess the newest item with the most features is a passion we can scarcely ignore.
Someday, you find yourself thinking, “What am I doing with all this stuff?” You are spending money to house the stuff. You are spending energy moving the stuff from place to place to make room for more stuff! Your stuff is everywhere. It’s filled all the closets. (Be honest. If you have an empty shelf, do you immediately start looking for something to go there?) Your stuff is piled on chairs and sofas and has spilled out in the yard and outgrown your shed.
If you think an episode of Hoarders may be in your future, I have a solution for you. If you have great furniture or nearly perfect appliances, call Habitat. The Restore is a great place to donate your excess.
So, you’re still stuck with the broken lawn furniture and a drawer full of computer mice and three old monitors. The answer is available to you next Saturday, June 1. Bring your trash and junk to the commuter lot at Dale Boulevard and Gemini Way. We’ll have a big dumpster you can use for regular “stuff” and another dumpster just for electronics recycling, courtesy of VIP Recycling (571.210.0642)
We’re going to give you a sweet treat from Dairy Queen as a reward! We also have some friends from Majest Martial Arts who are willing to perform some of their precision routines for you!
Print the flyer, spend this week figuring out what “stuff” you can get rid of and we’ll see you Saturday, June 1, between 8:00AM to noon! (Rain or Shine!)
