Daily Prompt: Can't Get Enough.
Have you ever been addicted to anything, or worried that you were? Have you ever spent too much time and effort on something that was a distraction from your real goals? Tell us about it. Photographers, artists, poets: show us ADDICTING.
Less Is More
I went through a long collecting phase. It started with duck salt and pepper sets. I dabbled in Royal Copenhagen plates and flowery, reticulated Bavarian dishes. I had a cupboard full of vases, a dozen ceramic teapots, vintage fruit crate labels, a rubber stamp collection and, most embarrassing of all, the Beanie Baby phase.
Husband asked one day, “Why don’t you try collecting money?”
Ha-ha! Funny man.
But that’s all in the past. I’m currently in a non-collecting, anti-clutter phase.
I just imagine, after I die, someone going through my house, planning an estate sale. Do I want them to be amazed by all the crap I’ve collected? Or do I want them to marvel at how tidy and organized everything is? I’d rather impress them with tidiness.
I donated a lot of junk when we moved into this house. I didn’t go to a single yard sale all summer. I’m not exactly collecting money, but I’m not amassing stuff anymore.
Less is more, that’s my new motto.
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October 10, 2013 at 12:06 pm
You sound like me… I still do thrift stores and an occasional garage sale, but I’m not nearly as bad as before… I try to stick to very pricie items…
October 10, 2013 at 2:42 pm
eBay was partly to blame. 😉
October 11, 2013 at 4:10 am
I’m so sorry for what I’m about to write – but I loved that line – never saw it coming – “Husband asked one day, “Why don’t you try collecting money?”
I can’t stop chuckling at this – such a smart-ass comment – but for some reason, it resonates with me.
I’m glad that you’ve found your way with the collecting – whatever makes you happy. There is a pleasure about living in “tidy” – it gives one room to breathe, expand, explore, and live.
October 11, 2013 at 5:06 am
Thanks Pat(ricia). Yeah, he’s a hoot!
October 13, 2013 at 2:15 am
roflmbo …. well … sometimes it’s not what we want to hear – but what we need to hear, in the moment … and you can call me Pat, if you want 🙂
October 13, 2013 at 3:40 pm
It’s true. I’d like to have some of that money back, that I frittered away.
It was therapy. Yeah, let’s say it was retail therapy!
October 18, 2013 at 9:59 pm
Lol …. well live and learn 😉