As Dianne and I look around the house, we see piles of stuff. The stuff we have accumulated in just the last several years is enough to declare Mount Everest a hill. It’s not that we are hoarders, as hoarders themselves would say, because we do have garage sales, yard sales and any type of sales we can come up with to get rid of the piles of stuff we don’t use.
That brings on another problem. What will happen if we need that one thing, say, in five years or so and we sold it at a garage sale or gave it away to a resale shop? Then we would need to go and buy a brand new thingamajig, possibly costing in the dollars! Now, I am not as bad about that as Dianne, but her pile of stuff is more important to her than my pile of stuff.
I do have to say that we didn’t start out this way. Growing up in humble means, I made most of my stuff to play with. Unfortunately, when I did get a bag of soldiers, they did not pile up because I would neutralize the enemy with my flamethrower, a.k.a. an oil can filled with gas. I got to a certain age in my teens that I would beg and borrow things I needed or wanted. When I moved out of the house, I got used furniture for a little of nothing and was happy.
Then comes marriage, kids, Christmas, birthdays, Easter, and other holidays. Of course, a decent job helped fuel the purchases at Walmart, Foley’s and any other mall outlet shop. I used to kid my wife that we supported two Walmart employees a month. I don’t kid her about that now it’s Amazon.
When the parents started to leave this world, we amassed enough piles of stuff to outfit three houses and its attics. That is when we got serious about letting go of our piles of stuff. We looked around and got tired of the piles of stuff, so we moved them around, and now they are just in different spots.
No matter how many sales we have, the piles won’t go away. But I think we hit a wall and we will finally get rid of all those piles of stuff we don’t need anyway. Or we might need. Oh well, I guess we will get around to it someday. Now we need to work on my procrastination problem.
Matthew 19:20 - Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on each, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
