

(pear, get it?)

Tonight was a particularly rough evening – I found out that my tool of a banker, after dragging his feet on my mortgage quest for the last two months, decided that an appraiser will show up tomorrow afternoon. I’m not big on taking off work (a recurring theme, you’ll notice), so I’ve been toiling away this evening in an attempt to make the property presentable.

While this was absolutely exhausting, it was also enlightening and inspiring –

The old cliche ‘the things you own end up owning you’ really started to sink in.

It occurred to me that every product you purchase, given enough time, is just another piece of waste.

I started to become a big fan and devoted reader of /r/minimalism

I started to see how hard it was to throw away even insignificant items – especially little pieces of hardware that I ‘might need’ in the future – And Boxes. Oh boy do I love to horde boxes. because yknow, I might need to send it back to the manufacturer some day.

No, I wont. A good example of this is my broken Keurig coffee maker – I have the box in pristine condition and it sits on the shelf right next to the coffee maker that broke 2 months into owning it (a fairly common occurence, from what i’ve heard). I need to throw it out, and in the future, I need to try to acquire less stuff.

This will help my checkbook, but in reality it all comes down to my ability to clear out the clutter of my mind and just relax.

An empty counter, empty floors, moderately empty shelves – I find that these are almost as conducive to my ability to relax as would be an empty schedule.

So today’s tip? Own less shit. It isnt fulfilling anyway.