There is this old saying that the time required to perform a
task expands to include all the time available to complete the task in. This
has been a constant rule in my experience.
I also have a parallel rule. The
items you choose to store expand to fill the space available to store them
in. Well I am full up in the storage
department. The problem is I can’t take
all this stuff with me and I need to decide what is important and what to
discard. For the last week I have been
going through the boxes and draws of the bus sorting and evaluating the many
treasures that I stored. More often than
not I catch myself asking “Why did I want to keep this?” There is the occasional “So that’s where that
is.” But mostly it’s “What was I
thinking?”
I might have a miser’s bone somewhere in my body because I often
find myself saying “I can sell that.” I
do have a lot of experience selling stuff and I know that if I think I can sell
it then it will sell. But as someone
else said “time is money”. The time required to sell the stuff would
exceed the value I would realize from selling it. It just goes against the grain to trash
something that I would and probably will pay good money for in the future. On the other hand part of my ethos is that we
do not possess our possessions they possess us.
You know less is more and all that stuff.
So I continue with sorting, sifting and repacking. All the while Boo searches for the tennis
balls I store away for her.
