Buying Stuff to Store my Stuff…….Hmmmmm

Ronnie B has a saying………Let the store store our stuff. In other words, don’t buy what you need until you need it. I am of the mindset to buy ahead, buy on sale, buy in bulk. My idea saves us money but his keeps us from cluttering our home with more stuff than we need right now. This also applies to packing for a trip. He takes a backpack to travel around the world. That is not a hyperbole. I pack for every circumstance that might come up. A couple years ago, I had my hoodie when we went to the Bahamas in the summer. There were other items I brought that I absolutely did not need or use. I assessed our luggage on the way home and realized that my packing everything was exhausting. Ronnie B may be right. The truth is that if there was an unpredicted cold spell, I could always buy a sweatshirt that may turn out to be a favorite later on. 

George Carlin had a whole routine about gathering stuff and the simplicity of not. 

My sweet Angelica comes up a couple times a week and helps me rid out all the stuff I should never have acquired to begin with. You would think after a couple years there would not be anything else to get rid of. Wrong!! Somehow I seem to gather more than we flush out. Take tweezers from instance. I have over a dozen pairs. It seems when I notice a new chin hair and obsessively need it tweezed immediately, that there are no tweezers around. So I must stop and buy a new pair because that tiny hair cannot possibly wait. Yes I have tweezers in my car, my purse, beside my bed, on the counter where I do my Bible study, just not where I need them right now. 

I have decided to toss out all the extras in my linen closet. So many half used soaps, deodorants, hair sprays, and everything else I will never use up in a lifetime. It is so hard to toss them. It seems so wasteful to not use the last possible portion of toothpaste. But my life will be simpler if I can start letting go and stop overbuying. Once again Ronnie B is right. I can manage a trip with only one top a day rather than twelve. I can let the store store my stuff. But not when it comes to toilet paper. I never want to be in a position of using the last square and not having another roll under the sink. Perhaps, I can keep my bathroom cabinet as a storage place after all.

In Him,

Joyful

2-13-25