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Topic: What would take with you???
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GypseeWind Moderator Posts: 3088 From: Dayton,Ohio USA Registered: May 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 02:13 AM
I find myself thinking so much these days about posessions..objects.How meaningless MOST of them actually are. How families fight over Dad's ring or Mom's crystal. In one of Shirley McClain's books she said something about the things you own, end up owning you, because of the time, effort and money expended on maintaining things that you can't really take with you in the end anyway. It astounds me now how much time in my life I've spent acquiring things, and worrying about keeping things. How I've stopped myself from moving to certain places because I didn't want to get rid of "stuff," and it wouldn't fit. How I worried that starting a new relationship would be difficult because I thought I may have to justify my stuff. I've decided that just about everything I have is replacable. Almost. I do place value on things like my Grandmothers crystal collection, but I know she wouldn't be mad if I choose to live without it. So, I've been contemplating moving and when I do, I want to take (not including my clothing) ONE trunk. I've been looking around and trying to figure out what should be going in that trunk. What is my legacy? What would I want to have with me for the rest of my life?? Surely I love my collection of Vampire DVD's, but they are replacable. So are my statues of Buddha. I think in my trunk, I am putting; my Grandma's jewels, the pictures of my children, and everything I've ever written. Really, everything else IS replacable. What about you? What would go in your trunk, if you could only have one??? IP: Logged |
GypseeWind Moderator Posts: 3088 From: Dayton,Ohio USA Registered: May 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 02:14 AM
"What would YOU take with you!" sheesh, blaming NyQuil on that one. IP: Logged |
LEXX Moderator Posts: 1135 From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 02:30 AM
Intriguing and thought provoking question. I will have to think on this. I have things I'd like to keep, but I think I could walk away from it all depending on the circumstances. I hoard too much and cannot find things anyhow. I think some intense "Spring Cleaning" may be in the works.------------------ Everyone is a teacher... Everyone is a student... Learning is eternal. }><}}(*> IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 585 From: Nov. 11 2005 Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 08:33 AM
My answer is pretty simple. Only because I was raised by a hoarder. Have you guys seen that show on T/V? It was difficult for me to watch, emotional.I get rid of things constantly, being somewhat fearful that I too will become a hoarder. My expulsions can be equally pathological at times. So, to answer the question; excluding the female necessities: My Music My mattress IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner Knowflake Posts: 2003 From: Toledo, OH Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 08:36 AM
my epiphone..letters and poems from my daughter. thats it. node i am like you.....i like minimal and clean.... and i married a borderline hoarder. imagine that. IP: Logged |
Node Knowflake Posts: 585 From: Nov. 11 2005 Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 10:35 AM
Oh, I am not minimalL@@KS around--- i have piles of dusty books everywhere etc. But it is organized. If I am living with someone I have good habits though. I kept thinking about this thread, and came back to add; I wouldn't have to bring anything, pack anything. There is not a single thing I own that is essential. This comes from a Taurus stell mind you IP: Logged |
GypseeWind Moderator Posts: 3088 From: Dayton,Ohio USA Registered: May 2009
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posted March 28, 2010 03:20 PM
Yes, I watch 'Hoarders' and I cry during every episode. I know someone like this, and I've tried helping him. He was EXTREMELY poor as a child, and his security lies now, in what he has accumulated. He has at LEAST four of everything.I love my dusty books too!!! But, information is so easy to find now on the computer. Oh, I guess my laptop and IPOD would definetly be in that trunk. IP: Logged |
Scorp31 Knowflake Posts: 100 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 29, 2010 12:06 PM
My music collection, its one of the things that have survived my many moves over the years.IP: Logged |
Sanchenuss Knowflake Posts: 438 From: Clinton, SC USA Registered: Nov 2009
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posted March 29, 2010 10:49 PM
My memories.IP: Logged |
Yin Knowflake Posts: 1257 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 30, 2010 09:21 AM
I kept coming back to this thread, wanting to respond... I have moved houses many, many times. Countries even.Everything is replaceable. The only thing I would need to take with me are my memories. I look at moving like I look at dying. If I have love, I have everything. IP: Logged |
GypseeWind Moderator Posts: 3088 From: Dayton,Ohio USA Registered: May 2009
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posted March 30, 2010 03:04 PM
Well, to a degree everything is replacable, but not the EXACT object, you know?My Granny had a statue of the Virgin Mary, and she did stuff to it, like, IDK, stuck mass cards onto it, and rosary beads. It's mine now. She has one arm broken off Sure, I can easily get another statue, but never the one my Granny touched, and prayed over, and looked at, know what I mean??? That goes in the trunk!! Funny, if I put it to the trash, nobody would pick it up, probably, just goes to show, one mans junk is another mans (womans) treasure! IP: Logged |
starkiss1 Knowflake Posts: 427 From: Registered: Jul 2009
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posted March 30, 2010 03:28 PM
I'd take all my junk collection with me, cos it is junk to any one else, but not to me. Everything which has a place in my heart would go in that trunk. Old pics, presents from my daughter, little things which are memories, like a little globe made of marble, given to me by my estranged father, little glass vases and candle holders, my old clothes which I am still hoping to fit into, what ever makes your new place a HOME, I would take it with me. I get attached to things, which are only dear to me, not to anybody else. But each of them is a tiny part of my life, so they are all coming with me!IP: Logged |
ghanima81 Moderator Posts: 279 From: Maine Registered: Apr 2009
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posted March 30, 2010 04:14 PM
I've moved so much, too. Across the country and back, to another country and back, leaving things when I had no choice, so I've become pretty easily sustainable on minimal "things". Just pictures, necessary clothing and my baby need to go with me. Anything else, I don't place enough sentimental value on because I have memories which to me are more real than objects. Ghani IP: Logged |
hippichick Knowflake Posts: 277 From: Registered: May 2009
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posted March 30, 2010 11:25 PM
I have this fantasy of, one day, fleeing in a gypsee wagon, with my two fav cats (soon to be 3), a few baubles of silver,a few pillows, comfy clothing....Pink Floyd Meddle and Tool Lateralus...A good bottle of Scotch...and a trusty steed to haul the wagon.... IP: Logged |
koiflower Knowflake Posts: 1633 From: Australia Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 01, 2010 06:32 AM
I would take my iTunes collection............. oh, and my partner if there was room!IP: Logged |