Thursday, April 23, 2009

Stuff

Stuff....clutter....crap.. there's lot of words for it and I have come to realize that I have way to much of it!!!! How much stuff does a family really need? Why do we think we need so much?

It really is ridiculous!!! We are having a garage sale next Sat., and so I've been going through things, cleaning and organizing, and getting MAD!! It makes it hard to clean things when there is stuff on everything! Sometimes I long for the days when Ben and I first got together and had hardly anything. Honestly, when we moved into our first house there wasn't even a stove, and we didn't have the money to buy one so we did without. It actually didn't even bother us that much because back then we just ate junk and I never really cooked anyways, we also didn't have a kitchen table. So needless to say, we didn't have a lot of extra crap laying around the house cluttering up things........................... now don't get me wrong, I'd much rather be in the situation that I am now, but there is a happy medium I think. Somewhere there is a point where its just enough. I am sure that that point is different for each family, for example, I have 3 kids, so the stuff needed in my house would obviously be different than say for example, my sisters house who will just have herself and her husband in it.

My point I guess is that I am on a mission to find out what I really need, and what is just cluttering up everything. And also I need to figure out the best place to store the things that I really need due to lack of space. It's bothering me so much today that I am debating on if I really even want/need to go to the big set of garage sales that I am planning on going to this weekend. Will I just be bringing in someone elses junk that I don't need? There are things that I do need for my kids though..... UUggghhhh,, I don't know what to do.

People just remember that STUFF doesn't make us happy!!!

4 comments:

Steph B. said...

Amen Sister!!!!! I have been feeling like that a lot lately! I cleaned out one small closet and got 2 bags full of stuff for Goodwill! It was ridiculous! But our house is so cluttered with big furniture stuff so i have been trying to organize,etc to get ready for baby which means bringing more stuff into the house but I know it is much needed. But.... I have also been thinking... How much does the baby really need and how much is it stuff that i think the baby needs or i need? Makes you think....

Dawn said...

You have to go to the garage sales! Thats when your going to see my house! :)

You kids need new summer clothes anyway.

Jaime said...

I wish I would've had this realization earlier than I did in life. By the time I realized that all the junk I was bringing in from garage sales really was just junk, it was too late. I was already drowning in clutter. I still need to get rid of a TON (probably literally!) of stuff. But now, when I go to garage sales, I don't just buy something because it is cheap. If I don't need it, it stays where it is. I try to get most of my girls' clothes from garage sales, so the big sales this weekend are a must in my book. The only problem is, I get their clothing so cheap that I tend to buy them more than they need. I am still working on this! If you go to the sales, have fun! Maybe we'll run into you!

Jill said...

Yeah, I decided I am still going to go because my kids do need stuff. But I'm gonna try to only get stuff we need!!

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