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Get Rid Of The Junk And Improve The Home
Want to bring a little space to any home? Well, get rid of the junk and improve the home by bearing down and making a decision that the accumulated ’stuff’ that has built up over a lifetime can actually be allowed to shuffle off this mortal coil. For instance, take a look at the wet dry vacuum that once worked but which now sits alone, in a corner and neglected by one and all.
Maybe we tend to think like the people who build the space shuttle over at NASA and intend on keeping redundancy in vacuums like they keep redundancy in keeping extra flight computers aboard the shuttle. In truth, we’ve convince ourselves that there may one day be a need for two sets of vacuums because the floors in the basement will be so flooded a pair of vacuums will be needed, maybe.
Maintaining that particular line of reasoning, take a moment to go into the garage and get a look at all of the stuff that’s been accumulating in our lives for many years. Over in the corner sits a pair of garden blowers that were once top-notch but which are now, just like the vacuum, neglected and ill used. Chances are good that we haven’t use them for years but they aren’t going anywhere, right?
Still, they might just one day come in handy should we need an emergency garden or the gardeners we’ve hired go out on strike, right? Most likely, it’s because people — and especially men — just can’t bear the thought of parting with stuff. We’re actually even willing to tolerate a buildup of ’stuff’ that we most likely are never going to use again in this lifetime or the next.
As an example of this particular line of thinking, take a moment to remember that gleaming chrome-plated motorcycle that was once a proud occupant of the driveway out front. It was sold off a long time ago to help pay for the baby’s nursery and there doesn’t seem a chance that the bike will be coming back anytime soon, though the full face helmet we used to ride it is still hanging around in the house.
One would have to ask, of course, why we would want to keep the helmet when we do not have a motorcycle to go along with it. Maybe it’s our subtle way of convincing ourselves that we haven’t totally gone domestic and that there’s a possibility — however slight — that a honking new chrome-wheeled, fuel injected beast will soon be back in our driveway, rumbling and waiting to be ridden hard.
Hey, it could happen though the chances are still exceedingly slim. We love junk, which in our eyes is not junk but something valuable and that has a connection to our past. Improving the home by getting rid of the junk is at once exceedingly easy and extremely difficult, though. Keeping stuff like helmets, vacuums and blowers MIGHT be a connection to our past but it DEFINITELY is connecting us to junk.
