Just Give It Away

Author: siggy

Just give it away.  There are so many things in our house that neither of us have even handled the last year.  The things are just sitting there.  Maybe, there is someone out there who can use the item.  Maybe, I will start a “clutter” journal.  So many times we discussed things we wanted to go through, discard or give away and I forget the agreements we made regarding those items we discussed.  Maybe if we wrote them down I can refer to the journal which can act as a contract between my wife and I.  We will see.  I will run that by my wife.

There are too many things in this house.  And it has me depressed.  There are too many piles in different corners.  It is just too hard going through this stuff.  I see a stack of canceled checks on the desk.  Your father has been dead twenty years.  Why are they not in the trash?  We can’t even throw away broken down electronics.  That video/dvd player does work any more.  Why is it sitting on those records?  I even tried it again.  I already told my other it no longer works.  None of the lights on it worked.  I just want to pitch it.  It is preventing me from going through the pile of LP’s it is laying on.  Why are we keeping those two stacks of “Architectural Digest”.  When is the last time you looked at an issue.  I have to run everything by you.  You have to make a decision on everything.  All of this has me depressed.  Why don’t you let me have control of the decisions on most things.  And when I complain of too many things still in the house, you tell me of all the things you have given away and pitched.  There may be a lot of truth to that.  There is still too many things in this house.  And I don’t want to work so hard in eliminating them.  There are still too many piles, boxes and books and LP’s everywhere.