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December 13, 2007
I am guilty of purging excessively
She'll probably disown me for typing this, but my Mother is a pack rat. While I'm not sure if it is conditioning or genetic, I fight the urge to hoard every single day.
And for that reason I am still unpacking.
Every item is meticulously inspected. With each mysterious plastic item, every single piece of paper, every sock without a partner -- I think, "If I throw this out now, in two days I'll figure out how much I needed it."
That's the kind of thought pattern no good "do-gooders" like Dr. Phil, Martha Stewart and Ron Paul tell you to ignore, but they are so very wrong.
Already, allowing reason to rule over my pack rat tendencies has proven problematic.
I threw away not one but two plastic things last week and today I discovered I needed not one of them, but both of them. And I will hate myself forever and ever, because you can't just go to the plastic doo-dad store and buy another one of these proprietary plastic doo-dads.
And now that I am arranging rooms, I think longingly of those lamps I hated (ugly! wrong style! old!) and tossed. Which is worse -- having no lamp on the bedside table or having one that you dislike intensely?
I know which I prefer. A few days too late.
Now that I am down to 8 small boxes to unpack, I'm being more careful. While it's not as fast to create sub-boxes for mystery cords, plastic pieces and such -- I'm learning from my mistakes.
And if anyone sees my pseudo Asian/Target shoji lamp in the trash, could you please return it? After some thought, it's not so ugly and would look just great in my guest bedroom.
Posted by Moxie at December 13, 2007 12:38 AM
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Moxie,Moxie,Moxie.......What am i going with you lol.......Nino
Posted by: Nino at December 14, 2007 4:05 PM
