Goodbye stuff

  Just had to say goodbye to a lamp that got knocked over. Years ago when we first moved to this country we were amazed that not every room in the house that we bought (and the vast majority of US homes) had a light in the ceiling. Some rooms just had a socket controlled by a light switch. You had to provide your own lamp for it. This was really strange to us but as a result we had to go out and buy four or five lamps to use in those rooms. Over the years they broke, got smashed (the shade was glass) and just wore out or weren't needed any more. Today I accidentally knocked over the last of those lamps and broke the shade making it pretty ugly and useless. Therefore it has just been thrown away after all this time. I suspect a few things we have around here will meet that same fate in the coming weeks. Things we will never use again or just don't want or even stuff that we want new versions of when we move. In theory the more we get rid of makes it cheaper to move since we don't have to pay to transport so much stuff.

  We do have a lot of stuff though, I'm a bit of a hoarder of my things and we get some stuff that we need for something and then never use again. True we may use it again but you end up with a lot of things like that. It doesn't help that we have outgrown the house we are in with what we have, we have enough beds for 3 bedrooms but one of our bedrooms is an office/library. Then we have a family room with stuff in it that we don't use since it isn't a very useful shape. Not to mention the exercise equipment that is dotted around the house. Then there is the stuff stored in the loft that we use occasionally (Christmas decorations, seasonal clothes etc). You end up with so many things over your life. Seems strange to think that when we started out all our possessions fit in one bedroom at my parents house before we got a place to live. Then when you are gone it all gets disbanded, taken by relatives or just thrown away again.