This Is Going To Mean A lot Of Trips To The Charity Shops.

[poliphilo]

We have a house in Oldham," says Ailz, "and it's full of stuff we think we can't live without, only we've just proved- by living here a year- that we can. I think we should bin it all."

I've been thinking the same.

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

yes!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I dream of living out of a suitcase- or maybe a begging bowl...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

No -- you've proven that you can live in your mother's house for a year without the stuff. What if you have to set up housekeeping again?

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Whilst I'm all in favour of getting rid of clutter, I had the same thought as lblanchard. Whilst you might have a lot of junk up in Oldham, if/when you need to set up your own home, you will need furniture, bedding, towels, cooking utensils etc. etc.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We'll store essentials in my mother's garage. Otherwise we'll buy second-hand.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, we won't get rid of everything.

But even if we did it wouldn't be difficult- or terribly expensive- to gather together the basics.

We know our way around the charity shops now. :)

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I took you literally.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well....

I think we'll need to keep the bed. And a chair or two. And I don't want to let go of my Kiplings, but otherwise...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

And kitchen stuff. Don't forget kitchen stuff. And possibly a reading lamp.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We have so much kitchen stuff; it's ridiculous. Most of it I never use.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I can agree with that. We have a fair amount of stuff, but we have two kitchens, so neither one is overloaded. I'm appliance-averse except for a few that I really really want -- coffee maker, toaster, e.g. In general, I don't like things that make a motor noise. No electric can opener or electric carving knife.

With the exception of some specialized bakeware and my canning supplies, and the second set of tableware in the upstairs kitchen, there's very little that's not in daily or weekly use. We only use the upstairs kitchen for coffee making and cold drink storage (unless I'm baking, canning, or doing some piece of slow-cookery while I'm working the my office next door).

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Indeed. I have some stuff here, of which I use only a very small proportion - mostly, clothing, the photography kit, and the computing gear, with which I pay my bills. (Ah, Dad resisted me getting a computer, claiming it'd "make my brain lazy".. but, he wound up seeing I'd not turned out too badly regardless =:)

Yet, there's a few boxes full of stuff that's seldom used, or even looked at. What's the point of all that?

(And then there's all the stuff I have/had in storage back in the Bay, for which that goes many times over)

Ultimately, and I mean this without any sense of being a platitude: what matters most is friends. They can help in tough times. Anything else, beyond the daily essentials, is icing on the cake.

So why is it so difficult to jettison the surplus? =:/