Stuff

[garote]

When I lived for a while down in Carlsbad, renting a room from my Ma, I had very few possessions. Or at least, it felt like I did. The stuff I interacted with most days was a pile of gear small enough to fit in a backpack. I remember that felt oddly liberating.

Sure, it was an illusion... I had a big pile of laundry, a car, some fancy stereo speakers, a desk, a bed... But it all seemed manageable somehow. Or unimportant. Now I have three desks, and enough computer gear to cover all three. Two toolboxes, and enough tools to overflow both. Two bicycles, and enough gear to outfit both and overflow four closet shelves besides.

This trend has got to reverse itself. I need to thin out my hoard. I need to feel agile and uncluttered by gear. People are what's important to my happiness, after all.

Comments

[shinkagakusha.livejournal.com]

I'll take any records you want to get rid of. =)

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but do you ever find that the second you get rid of something or give it away, a situation arises in which you need it?

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Good plan! I've been much happier with fewer items. I wonder if it'll actually happen for you, though. You and The La™ both seem to accumulate stuff. And, you build much more than I do.

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Nope. Maybe my bike repair kit, but I couldn't have taken that with me abroad, anyway. Most of my neighbors are like gb and have more tools than they know what to do with & so are happy to lend me the thingy to raise or lower my bike seat, e.g.

[beatings.livejournal.com]

I always worry about this, but it hasn't happened once yet...

[garote]

I don't have any records, but I do have an INCREDIBLE number of CDs. You want those?

[garote]

Yes, it's the building that vexes me the most. I look around me and, with every single item I spot, I can think of at least one project or situation where it might be useful. I bought the item for a good reason in the first place, after all. But perhaps the solution is simply to donate all this stuff to friends or to a lab.

[shinkagakusha.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. How many is "incredible"?

[garote]

Somewhere between 400 and 600.

[garote]

Yes! That's partly why I still have so much crap!!!!

[shinkagakusha.livejournal.com]

Pretty large. E-mail me what 'choo thinkin' about.

[garote]

Well they're all on spindles. I reckon I could send them to you in a big box.

[polyomino.livejournal.com]

Just remember, inventor, the word INventory can be pronounced inVENTery.

[garote]

All too true!!! Now if only I had enough time outside the office to do all the inventing this mound of materials warrants! :D