Posted by son of a hoarder on October 14, 2008 at 08:18:42 from (72.92.136.226):
In Reply to: Letting things go posted by 37chief on October 13, 2008 at 19:36:04:
The problem is you just can't keep everything you come in contact with. I tend to think it is more important to live your life building your own legacy, just as your dad and grandad did before there was all these material possesions like there is today. Its kind of sad to let old clutter control your life. Keep something to remember your past relatives by, but you shouldn't keep everything just because it was theirs. My father has a problem with keeping too much stuff too. All this clutter just consumes him, his father's big ol' canoe for example is an item he would never ever let go, even though he hasn't and won't ever take it out. There it sits in the rafters of the old barn with a layer of dust so thick on it that you can't tell what color it is. I've tried unsuccessfully to get him to take it fishing. That damn canoe has been there the last 2 decades unused and counting. There are also many other things that my dad would never part with. My dad also has troubles letting go of many more objects, even his junkmail he will hang onto until mom gets after him. I hate to say it, but his life is totally consumed by his stuff, he spends all his time to home afraid thieves will come steal his stuff. This is NO WAY TO LIVE. His life is passing him by while he is storing and protecting all this stuff he isn't using and can't bring himself to let go of.
After my dad is gone, that old canoe will be going because I have no use for it, and didn't even know his father since he passed just before I was born. I am not going to keep all this junk, no way. I would rather have a more social life and be free to travel. There is so much to life beyond whereever it is that you live.
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