The Daily Challenge

Do 100 push-ups Go through all of your possessions and objectively ask yourself, What is really bringing value to my life?

I find that “stuff” doesn’t give me the pleasure it once did. Maybe because in my younger days, I couldn’t afford a lot of stuff. Now that I can and have accumulated a lot of it, the novelty of having new stuff has worn off, and it just doesn’t do much for me anymore. If anything, it gives me a sense of displeasure being that I’m always trying to find places to store it, it gets in the way, and it causes clutter and disorganization. Not a fan.

I have a bad habit of keeping things “just in case” or as a backup. At one point, when I started moving tools from my shed, I found that I actually had 4 circular saws, one of which didn’t even work. I’ve since tossed one and gave away another leaving me with two, a cordless and a corded. This is just one small example.

While I have gone through a much of my stuff and gotten rid of a lot of it, I still have a 120 gallon fish tank in my garage that there is not really a place for in my house. I have a box of coax cable and other connections, chargers, and other electronic doodads that I’ve been saving “just in case” that really needs to get tossed. My kids still have some crap stored here that I don’t know what to do with. I have a closet full of clothes that I need to go through and cull out. I could go on and on.

To go through all of it would take weeks, so today I am going to concentrate on my closet, especially since I need to get it squared away before my trip, and it is on my short term task list anyways.