Ah - Clutter
There's some interesting comments on Althouse re clutter - what it means, how to get rid of it, and why:
This speaks to me on lots of levels. As one who spent his day off cleaning out the pantry, I know the satisfaction of a job well done - and extra bags piled by the garbage can. I just tell myself, "It took months/years to get this way - you can't clean it all on one vacation day."
I also recall fondly the many sales at "the farm" and the characters you would meet at those events. The aunts had set out an old (dead) christmas tree and hung it with bric-a-brac to sell. The tree was merely "the display", but along comes some character who bought the whole thing - she collects old trees. Hope she doesn't smoke in bed.
You would think that there are only two kinds of people in the world: those that sell at yard sales, and those that buy at yard sales. It's more like: there are those that "participate" in yard sales, and those that don't. Yard sellers and buyers are the same people, handing the same stuff around in a circle, endlessly, and wondering why it's piling up in their house.
This speaks to me on lots of levels. As one who spent his day off cleaning out the pantry, I know the satisfaction of a job well done - and extra bags piled by the garbage can. I just tell myself, "It took months/years to get this way - you can't clean it all on one vacation day."
I also recall fondly the many sales at "the farm" and the characters you would meet at those events. The aunts had set out an old (dead) christmas tree and hung it with bric-a-brac to sell. The tree was merely "the display", but along comes some character who bought the whole thing - she collects old trees. Hope she doesn't smoke in bed.
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