It's Your Choice

03/19/2012

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              I love hearing from people who enjoy the blog, especially when a topic creates a lot of interest.  So I'd like to go in that direction.  I started the blog as a way of sharing “Endangered Species,” and also to keep in touch with members of the class I taught last fall, “The Psychology of Stuff.”

          Now I’d like some feedback as to what direction we should continue in.  What are you most interested in hearing about:

          The psychology behind our attachment to things.

          Ways to live a simplified, more “spiritual” life.

          Practical tips and ideas for managing and organizing your stuff.

          How to sell on eBay.

          Setting goals for simplifying as a group, and discussing them with each other.

           My progress and setbacks as a writer.

           Sharing creative ideas on how great ways to live (not just stuff but food, travel, gardening, art etc.)

                 You can pick more than one.

             I’d also like ideas on how to get the Endangered Species into more permanent form.  If a book, including what else?  If a T-shirt--would you wear one?  Seriously, my accountant gave me some great ideas for future Delhi Laine mysteries (he finds my writing more interesting than my taxes).  so I’m counting on you!
 


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Liz Randall
03/19/2012 9:24am

I just find 'stuff' to be a burden. I helped my Mom move last year, and I was overwhelmed with what she left me to deal with. So much of the stuff that I have is 'invisible'. I neither see it nor use it. Now I think of what I would be asking someone else to handle if something were to happen to me and I had not disposed of all this stuff!
Stuff begone!

Judi Culbertson link
03/19/2012 4:10pm

Liz, you're so right to think about someone having to deal with accumulations of stuff. My Dad kept everything, from his Eagle Scout certificate to 30 years of Marine Engineering magazine and old utility bills, all mixed together so that you had to look at everything before discarding it.

You're so right too about "invisible" clutter, the things we don't even remember we have.


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