BrendaChenowyth

I've been thinking about how I want to spend my spring break. I will have a big house to myself as parents will be away on their yearly cruise (oh yeah, they got a buy2get1 deal and since we didn't know our vacations happened to coincide, they offered it to my recently widowed aunt who had to deal with breast ca last year, which let's face it, she needs a caribbean cruise more than I do)

I don't want to be isolated, but I don't want to work to fill the hours. I have to get out a little bit. I don't want to spend the whole time on social media or on here. I will have to study some but not the entire week lol and it looks like we are anticipating a temperature drop.. of course! It's absolutely beautiful today while I'm at work, but will be rainy and chilly while I'm on vacation.

BixBees505

I applaud this approach and aspire to it, MidnightB. But I'm not there yet.

I am a dead end of three generations...no children...and god knows nobody wants this "stuff" even if I would have had children. I'm the last in a line coming from nothing in my family and believing all things obtained by hook or crook should be preserved. And I DID believe it...only now questioning. It is hard to to make decisions for me, and I'm definitely limited to purging in layers, still.

I will ultimately arrive at "use it, love it, or lose it" -- and then 99% of the "love it" will go, because loving stuff is a lot of misplaced sickness in my case!

Midnight, you are ahead of me in this and in professional changes. Kinda my current hero and inspiration.

MidnightBlue

Oh, Bix, as Sherlock said "I am not a hero, I am a highly functioning sociopath")))

I've just realized yesterday that I can't spend the rest of my life sorting out clutter.

I am in the same boat as you - my family obtained these possessions going through hardships, and I feel like I am betraying them. Even though I have no contacts with what is left from my birth family, it's still hard.

But it's just stuff. There is no betrayal. Losing precious time on this Earth contemplating of things is betrayal of life.

People will colonize Mars in some foreseeable future - are we dragging all our belongings there?

And what I've noticed that I may spend days torturing myself over "should I keep it or let go", but once it's gone, I don't even remember it was there.

I heard recently a great quote "Hard decisions are only hard while we are making them".

saoutchik

I am eating cheese.

Grymt

thank you. That made my day.

BrendaChenowyth

I have to cut back my cheese consumption and that makes me sad.

saoutchik

With thanks to Gilmer.

A P/T job or maybe volunteering might be an idea BrendaC, too much down time can be an enemy to people like us

BixBees505

saoutchik

I have just watched a documentary on Tom Waits, tough going as he was boozing non stop as young man (and smoking). He has not drank for years now, he said that being a drunk was like having a dysfunctional Siamese twin (being Tom Waits he did not use the word "dysfunctional" but two other ones).

Gilmer

I just got done eating cheese!

PhoenixJ

Cheese rules, ok

Sober369

I love the cheese reference. Needed a laugh! Thanks.

BrendaChenowyth

I wonder how long my coworker is going to sleep. REALLY???

petals

Not long finished cheesy chips (fries) yummy xx

BrendaChenowyth

I had nacho cheese Bugles

saoutchik

Goodnight Gang!

Grymt

Good morning from OZ.

STDragon

Looked in my fridge for cheese today. Only found processed cheese slices, yuck. My favorite is colliers welsh cheddar. Can be quiet expensive tho....

PhoenixJ

Cheeses people! You are all getting Krafty.

Julia8

I am cracking up w/ all the cheesy comments!

MesaMan - thanks for the pic - I will gladly take your shuttle to other worlds anytime!

PhoenixJ - your "drinking is dumb" comment made me laugh too.