Daddysredhead
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Joined: 11/6/2005 From: Northern (yet still part of the South) Virginia Status: offline
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I love that I finally emptied the storage unit yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have hated that so much of my stuff, my parents' stuff, and my grandmother's stuff was in 200+ boxes for the past many, many years. For over two of those years, I have had to pay to keep it locked away because I didn't have space to keep it at my place. That has now changed. It is gone. Much of it donated, tons of it thrown out, and some of it still in boxes in my living room until I can do a secondary "sweep" of it and whittle it down some more. I hate that the boxes are in my living room, but dayum am I ever glad to have it under my roof and not elsewhere. I can go through them now, in the warmth of my home, and keep the real treasures, and dismiss the rest. I told Tulip that I have (as Robin Williams said in Mrs. Doubtfire) the "refugee fleeing my homeland motif" for the moment, but that will change. I love that I feel liberated from all that stuff. I love that I feel that I have broken the cycle of being a total pack rat like my mom (whom I loved dearly, but would never part with anything). I love that I made the last payment to the storage company yesterday, and that I don't have to do it anymore. That's like money in my pocket, right away. I love that my dad, DB, Thing 2, and my ex helped me quite a lot over the past several weeks to get rid of stuff. (Thing 1 takes after his grammy and will not part with anything, so he wasn't asked to help very much because we'd be right back where we started.) Thank God, it's done.
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