[nostatic]

Over the past few years I've pondered ways to "simplify." I certainly had to do so when I moved out of the house for the divorce, and have done fairly well at keeping things fairly simple since then. But when I look at my bills and the boxes of crap that I still have yet to unpack, I figure that there still is a ways to go.

So what have you "gone without" that you no longer miss, and what things have left a hole? For instance I'm about ready to ditch the home phone (verizon charges me for LOCAL calls...bastards) and just keep DSL. Pondering getting rid of DirecTV and just watching DVDs. I recently upgraded my video/audio so that is staying as it is a passion and a work-related thing.

The garage will get a cleaning (a few Porsche parts that need to go and some other bits), keeping the motorcycle, road bicycle and mtn bike. Boxes of old electronic gadgets long since forgotten will be given away and old floppy disks and cds will be destroyed (like I'm ever going to go through them).

I did order another camera today, but it has a specific purpose, and I've pared down to a dslr with 4 lenses and now 2 different point and shoots. I also have the SD video camera. Have my basic music setup covered (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, fretted and fretless basses, guitar and bass amp).

Could use more kitchen stuff but have the basics. Also have basic furniture...could have more but everything works. The art on the walls is now mostly my photographs so that is covered.

Now I have about 15 boxes from my old office at work to go through. Going to be giving away a lot of books I never read and throwing out old files and papers that I'll never look at.

If I haven't needed something put away in a box for the last three years, odds are I never will. I'm tired of having "stuff' sitting around. TIme for it to go to the cornfields...