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As someone who can't bring myself to get rid of anything, I feel very fortunate to be married to a woman who is attached to nothing (accept me and Jessie our dog) and is an interior decorator. She enjoys "things" for a time and then they are gone - given to one of the kids, a friend, goodwill, or sold at her store. These "things" consist of household stuff (furniture, lamps, anything in the house), dishes, kitchen stuff, her clothes - any"thing".
She is truly a "you can't take it with you" person who lives lean where stuff is concerned. She could easily fit the "stuff" that she would never get rid of into a small suitcase. She likes nice things, enjoys them for a while and moves on. Definitely not into collecting.
I am trying like hell but can only go on a throw away binge maybe once every couple of years. When we got married, I was 36, I still had clothes from high school (they did fit). Employees at my business know and understand my problem and know to "not ask, just throw it away and he won't say anything or won't know".
My house is furnished with very nice "things" including art and nice furniture - but nothing is sacred and it changes from time to time.
I really admire her for not getting attached to "things", as she says "its just stuff". She hates clutter. She reads a magazine, tears out anything that is of interest and puts it in a notebook for reference and throws the magazine away.
So what do I do? I have to have a garage about 3 miles from my home where I keep "projects" and "stuff" on the ground floor and upstairs are my books, magazines and other "stuff". She doesn't go over there much. Even Jessie doesn't like going in there too often. My garage at home is sparse (by my standards) with a few tools and "stuff" for light projects.
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