Get Rid Of The Junk And Improve The Home
Want to bring a little space to any home? Well, get rid of the junk and improve the home by bearing down and making a decision that the accumulated ’stuff’ that has built up over a lifetime can actually be allowed to shuffle off this mortal coil. For instance, take a look at the wet dry vacuum that once worked but which now sits alone, in a corner and neglected by one and all.
Maybe we tend to think like the people who build the space shuttle over at NASA and intend on keeping redundancy in vacuums like they keep redundancy in keeping extra flight computers aboard the shuttle. In truth, we’ve convince ourselves that there may one day be a need for two sets of vacuums because the floors in the basement will be so flooded a pair of vacuums will be needed, maybe.
In keeping with that line of thought, take a walk into the garage and eyeball all of the things that have been stacked up inside over time. Maybe we once had a garden — or maybe we still have one but it’s being worked on by gardeners — and we loved the garden blowers that we got at the local home improvement store, though we haven’t used these blowers for quite some time.
One day, they just may be needed when the gardeners go on strike for higher pay, perhaps. Or maybe it’s because we (men, especially) just can’t bear to part with the accumulation of stuff we gather throughout our lives. Maybe we’re even willing to sacrifice a bit of cleanliness or non-cluttered space in order to keep around items that were never going to use, at least in this lifetime.
Consider the fact that we no longer own a motorcycle after getting married and settling down with the wife and the two recently-arrived children. That bike is long gone and the money we got for it was used to buy the nursery that both children are still happily occupying. However, the full face helmet that went along with the motorcycle we kept, sitting up on our mantle and now gathering dust.
One would have to ask, of course, why we would want to keep the helmet when we do not have a motorcycle to go along with it. Maybe it’s our subtle way of convincing ourselves that we haven’t totally gone domestic and that there’s a possibility — however slight — that a honking new chrome-wheeled, fuel injected beast will soon be back in our driveway, rumbling and waiting to be ridden hard.
It’s possible, though highly unlikely, that this scenario could play itself out. The truth is; we love our stuff no matter what that ’stuff’ is. It might be something that connects us to our past, but if we want a little less clutter in our life we need to get rid of the junk and improve the home at the same time. It might be easy or it might be hard, but it probably needs to be done eventually.
