Stuff

I've been trying to sort out my life recently. Any housemove leads to a lot of arranging and sorting, and none more so than a move to another country. Also, as my friends and family are undoubtedly aware of, it is not in my nature to throw things away. And that's an understatement...

So while I was sorting through ancient magazines (last looked at four years ago), deciding which to keep and which to throw, I wondered. How do you sort through all the stuff that accumulates during your life? There are interesting things all around, how do you decide what's important, and what not?

One member of my family has no such problems. E. has the uncanny ability to simply throw stuff when she doesn't need it. She goes to fleamarkets and e-bay, not to buy stuff like the rest of us, but to sell it... L., a friend of a friend, has that same unsettling, but entirely admirable habit. How do they do it?

Anyway, while pondering this, my eye fell on an interesting article that I just had to read. It didn't help me clear up my house, but it did help me furnish my mind, and I spent a nice quiet afternoon reading...