Stuff R Us

One way to find out who am I

I want to extend my greatest appreciation to all of you paid subscribers. Last week, two more people joined the ranks, one of whom became a Founding Member! It may not sound like much to you, but to me, it was a great vote of confidence and support. It made my day and my week!

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Look around and take a quick inventory of the things in your proximity you actually touched in the last year. Don’t argue. Just do it.

I am forced to touch everything I own and decide if I should keep it and ship it or not. I started a couple of months ago with old pictures and documents. I amused myself and friends with my grandfather’s old medals and pictures of me dancing hula in full consume - coconuts, grass skirt, and a hoku lei. But still, only a handful of things survived File 13, the trashcan. Somehow, the new me didn’t even care about my Old Me’s teenage diary.

Moving onto books was a little harder. I love books. I read them, scribble notes in the margins, color-code the Post-it notes, and arrange them by subject on the shelves. When I sold my Los Osos house, I downsized my library by at least 50 books. It turns out the local bookstore buys books back if they are good ones, something like .10 cents on the dollar, or they give you almost double that in store credit toward their used books. Can you guess what I ended up doing? That’s right. I moved to a much smaller place and still needed multiple bookcases. Last week, I made that same trip to the bookstore. This time, my books got me two pairs of earrings and a pair of fun socks. Those are a lot easier to ship overseas!

Still, I found myself depressed for a couple of days. Books, to me, are like good friends I never want to leave behind. It hurt to betray my friends. I used them and then just dumped them. I sold them out for shiny objects. I traded wisdom and knowledge for something I could put in my pocket. No, it’s not rational, but it is the truth. LOL.

But wait! There’s more.