The only thing harder than accumulating stuff….

…Is getting rid of it all! Truly, getting rid of all your stuff is a real task, no matter how good quality it is.

As I was wrapping up our fancy china it just occured to me that we hadn’t used it as much as perhaps we were planning to. Back when we first got married I think we thought we’d have more dinner parties and stuff like that. But then we never did. Sure we had people over for dinner, but it was always pretty informal.

And so now it just seems like a bit of a waste. All this really nice stuff that wasn’t used much, and not it’s going to be stored for at least a few years. It’s not that I’m ungrateful for people having bought this for us on the wedding list. Nor is it going to go off of course – it will always be there to be used whenever we come back or settle elsewhere and have stuff shipped out to us. But it was depressing.

The whole process of selling our stuff has just made me never want to have much stuff ever again. It’s just not worth it. You’re never going to be 100% sure of how your life is going to turn out and what direction you’ll take – like what happened to me.

The same is true of our car. We have this lovely red Rover Convertible and it’s been great. But now that we come to sell it we might not get what we thought we would and again it’s a reminder of our throwaway society and just home much some goods do depreciate. It’s made me never want a decent car again! You put money into them and for what? To lose even more! It’s ridiculous.

~ by thesynapse on 1 August, 2007.