Purge

I have never seen those movies. I probably won’t ever as well. I wonder if I lose my horror film star card because of it but its not really something that I think is “neat” to contemplate (not that any horror show is but fighting against Freddy has been a continuous nightmare for myself). I would probably spend the year trying not to piss anyone off, building a fortress and then weeping in the closet……oooorrrr I would be the worlds craziest murderer with a machete. No thanks.

That’s not the purge I am talking about today. I’m talking about the ever faithful millennial hype kick that I am currently falling on to the last couple months.

Minimalism.

I said it. Its out there. A good friend and I have been sending each other pictures/texts when we start to get rid of things. She has pro status at this point. I think she officially does live with only a 100 things and 98 of them being her books. (Kidding.) But that’s the thing. I don’t really want to be a minimalist. I just want less stuff….and I don’t want to work SO hard to make my house full of less stuff.

According to Wikipedia,  this is a movement from the 60’s and its just surging its foaming face to the surface again but with a different twist. Minimalism back then was in the arts. The less paint you had on the page the bigger the expression you were going for. So know, the less pens you own in your possession the bigger the person you are for it. Sleep DIRECTLY on the floor! Some of this stuff reminds me of when I just moved to this city. I literally had nothing. My parents bought me a bed, two side tables, and a matching couch and loveseat for a total of $35 from someone they knew. Those items for the most part lasted me for about 10 years or more. I actually have one of the tables still, and everything else was donated to someone else in need as I was upgraded to newer couches someone didn’t need. I’m not sure I want to go back to living like a poor unfortunate soul that just moved here and can’t figure things out.

I’m okay with living like the poor unfortunate soul that still cant figure things out but can at least just keep her house clean.  This leads me to my purge problem.  I can’t just “toss” things away. That’s extremely wasteful for the things that have done nothing but accidently collected dust in my presence. So what do I do? For months I have been posting things in the ‘Buy Nothing’ or Marketplace groups of Facebook. Its been a snails pace to get some of it gone. Now we are down to the things that can’t go on there due to the visibility of marketplace to others on Facebook.  Items are starting to raise questions as to why we are getting rid of them instead of using them for their purpose. Problem being, we loved the thought, but we don’t have the means for the purpose. There’s only so many hours in the day and that said item no longer can fit into a time slot even if I tried.

so now what?

I am open to suggestions. I am also willing to post pictures for those interested in my amazing not to purge my life away race.