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October 24, 2005
Clutter reduction
This is dangerous for a person like me. I'm messy and disorganized, but I also throw away heaps of things. I'm married to an accumulator; to some extent we balance each other out. But give me an excuse to ditch, and ditch I do. As I read this article, my mind started surveying the kitchen counter. On it, for example, I have a food processor that I inherited several years ago from my mother-in-law and which I have never used. Out it goes! I don't even do yard sales; I just throw away. Out, out, out. So now I'm waiting for the pronouncements of a National Study Group on Chronic Discarding. Will they decide that both accumulation and discarding are facets of OCD? Or will they tell me that, because I throw things away, I'm the opposite of OCD? And what, please, would be the opposite of OCD?
Posted by senioritis at October 24, 2005 07:06 AM
Comments
Oh, honey, I'm ALL ABOUT getting rid of things, and I think it definitely does have a psychological component. Hillary and I have often talked about the pleasure we get from throwing things away: it's easy, it's gone, it's out of sight, out of mind, and the house is better for it. the quick fix. If only it were that easy to get rid of the voices in my head... :)
Posted by: aerobil at October 24, 2005 10:25 AM
My problem is that I indeed get rid of stuff. Like, as I fold the laundry, there is a pile for each person in my house, and a trash bag I load stuff in.
But I don't throw away. I save to give away. To the Rescue Mission, or Sally's, or wherever. And so while I am greatly satisfied to "get rid" of stuff, I seem to simply accumulate garbage bags full of clothes and et cetera that I never manage to take to Good Will. So my car, my garage, my attic: all filled with bags of clothes and toys that somebody could be using, if I would just DRIVE TO WEGMAN'S and drop the damn crap off.
Posted by: madeline at October 24, 2005 09:48 PM
Have you read The Golden Notebooks?
My favorite clutter story.
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Posted by: Carolyn at October 26, 2005 06:59 PM