Let’s Lighten Up a Bit

Whew, all this serious talk about hoarders. Let’s talk about lightening up. If your telephone breaks, do you take it to the telephone repair place? No? Do you buy a new one? Please tell me that you dispose of your broken telephone.

We shall use the telephone as a metaphor for all the things you buy. I can’t tell you how many times I see boxes of old telephones that don’t work any more. Picture this. Your telephone breaks so you go to the box of old telephones to find a replacement. That’s not what you do? What, you go to the store or online and buy a new phone? Why do you do that when you have a whole box of phones in the fill in the blank area? Storage, garage, under your bed, wherever. So, if you’re not using those telephones and wouldn’t consider resurrecting one, why are you keeping them?

Ooooohhh, EBay has taught you to keep everything because it might be worth something someday. Your next door neighbor sold a couple of phones from the 60s for $25 each! Wow, that’s pretty cool. I wonder what it cost him to store those phones and then advertise them just to make $50. He probably paid $25 for them back in the 60s anyway.

Like I said, the telephone is just an example of tons of things that you could be holding on to that just aren’t worth the space. Lighten up and let in things that are truly meaningful and valuable to you at this time unless you have unlimited, free storage space.


Jan Davis
www.Clutterbye.com