we're moving this weekend. so now we're packing. and i might cry.
whyyyyy do i have soooo much stuff!?!?!?? its amazing how much photography & design stuff i've collected in the past three years. i have boxes of paints, chain, cloth, backgrounds, paper of all sorts, a thousand types of glue & spray-paint, recycle/reuse projects.
*breathe*
i'm quickly becoming detached to what i own. i probably should not watch Fight Club tonight or we will end up moving just our bed & toiletries. well plus my camera. but that would probably be it. and maybe it should be!
other than my photographic equipment, roller skates, bottle cap stuff & laptop there is really nothing else that i use on a weekly basis! why do i keep it?
just in case.
just in case one day i weigh what i used to weigh and i can wear those damn jeans again.
just in case i get the crazy notion i can teach myself to paint again.
or the slim chance that i'll one day want to read my sappy high school journals and remember how boring i was.
we've all heard it: the things you own end up owning you.
buried by belongings. its time to minimize.
i want to own only my freedom.
i found that the best way for me to figure out what was REALLY important to me was packing it all up in two suitcases.. since that was all i was allowed to bring internationally... (and must weigh under 50 lbs. each)
ReplyDeletei still brought stupid stuff with me... but each time it gets easier to purge that 'what if..' stuff.
saying that. if you saw all the CRAP i have right now. hoarding... i nearly want to move house JUST so i have the excuse to leave it behind..
i'm sure the two suitcase thing did clarify the priorities a bit! yeah, i'm thinking that maybe we need to move every year just to keep ourselves on the light side...
ReplyDeletei'm so guilty about keeping stuff for "when/if" situations. clothes especially.
ReplyDeletemaybe a garage sale would help? get a little extra cash AND get rid of crap that just keeps dust...