Obsessed with stuff? or Just in Case

I am in purge mode.  I’ve been inspired by my organizational, label-obsessed neighbour!!  You know who you are! ;)

For two people, it’s amazing how much stuff we have accumulated over time that is used once, twice…or maybe it’s never been used…ever!  But, for some reason there was  a ‘need’ to have it at the time and there is a need to hold onto it…Just in Case.

Outdated, broken, ripped…why keep it?  I have receipts from 20 years ago!  Do I need those?  Nostalgia?  I doubt it!  Cookbooks that have never been splattered from the makings of a culinary creation..and likely, never will.  Anyone need some cookbooks?!

And while I would like to shift the blame as to why I ‘keep’ all of it…I can’t.  The only reason it’s still there is…well, ‘just in case’. 

Wouldn’t it be great if you could give away stuff with the option to borrow it, just in case?!  I see a new venture for someone…anyone?

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that maybe I don’t need several telephone extension cables from those ‘dial-up’ internet days that I found yesterday tucked away.  And, I could even take a pass on the 25’ Cat5 cable that was my ‘laptop link to the world while sitting on the patio’ - everything is wireless now. 

Just thinking about the purge is making me feel lighter (the bathroom scale LIES!…actually, my favourite pair of jeans must also be lying! hmmmm…ooops! - maybe I should toss the scale and the jeans too!) It is time to start simplifying, by minimizing the just-in-case stuff. 

OK, who needs some ‘stuff’, because I might have some available.