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Someone Might Use This

I have escaped to my frog prince room to get away from my everyday messes. I promised myself I would not do this again, reminding myself, "less is more." But self did not listen. We dragged home everything and anything someone might use. Someone might use has never come to play or to visit. Someone might use has never taken anything home. Someone might use does not exist except in my shop-a-holic mind. Someone might use needs to be obliterated from my dendrite pool. Someone might use needs to be annihilated and cremated. Someone might use needs to walk the plank, in front of ferociously angry pirates. At the very least, someone might use needs to be eliminated from my vocabulary. And the way this stuff is piling up, the sooner the better. Is this the result of being raised by two children who lived during a depression? Maybe, but my mother could locate anything and everything, quickly, for someone who might use. I cannot find it even when I search and search. I am a grown up now, anyway. I have no one to blame but myself for all of these things that "someone might use", but never does. As I discard truckload after truckload of stuff that I dragged home, for the notorious "someone who might use", I hope that I have learned my lesson. But I doubt it.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 6/10/2018 6:19:00 PM
Caren, I am sorry you have this problem. It must really weigh on you. I too save many things. Thankfully I have a big house and just store it in boxes. My hubbie gets so angry when he sees my clutter so I have to keep it out of sight! I guess living with him helps me keep things more in order, so I don't have to hear him yell at me! Keep writing from the heart. I feel hopeful for you, as you said that you've been trying to throw things away. Good for you.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/11/2018 9:14:00 AM
I have gotten rid of 7 truckloads of junk; two of them went straight into the dumpster. Five of the loads went to charities. I have decided if I am not personally going to use it, it is going. No more saving for anyone else.
Date: 6/9/2018 2:31:00 PM
Wow, I can really identify with this poem... :) That inconsiderate so-and-so (Someone Might Use) has unnecessarily cluttered my life for many years, too!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/11/2018 9:13:00 AM
I am so tired of all this, and the more I sort and throw, the more I see to do. It's amazing that I have allowed it to get this far ahead of me! I know one day my children will throw it all into a dumpster, so it's up to me now to sort it so they will not be as overwhelmed as I am.

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