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[edwardina]

I have to ask myself right now, if I have any business owning more than I can carry.

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[zyzzyva23]

I'm pretty sure a fridge and a bed are worthwhile.

[edwardina]

I didn't come away with either of those things anyway. But I do have approximately 17 boxes of books. :-/

Stuff doesn't own you.

[nymysys]

Sometimes you gotta burn it down before you can rebuild. I went home- and stuffless in 2006. I found more stuff available to buy since then.

Re: Stuff doesn't own you.

[edwardina]

I have been staring around at all this stuff and thinking, "I don't care if I ever see any of it again," but my roommate and my sister are both advising me that this is a symptom of post-break up ennui and that I will care again and I will be sorry if I have to waste money buying new stuff ... even more new stuff than I will already have to buy, because I do not have the above mentioned bed. Actually, I believe that I managed to avoid coming away with so much as a single stick of furniture.

Le sigh.

Re: Stuff doesn't own you.

[nymysys]

I dunno, lady. I don't know what kind of stuff you're talking about, or even exactly what's going on. But I know when I stopped having a home I had a few priorities: get a job to support myself, make myself as small as possible so that I could couch surf, and liquidate as much as possible to help with the first two priorities. I felt like I had to get down to some basics real quick.

When your stuff becomes a burden, it's useless, IMHO.

Re: Stuff doesn't own you.

[edwardina]

When your stuff becomes a burden, it's useless, IMHO.

I feel like most of what I have now was accumulated under a different understanding and expectation of what the future would hold, or even what I wanted it to hold, than I am currently facing, so yeah.