Junk ? Why do we collect it
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Junk it is in all of our lives at one time or another.
My reason for this subject is because I just finished having a yard sale, a not to profitable one at that. As I sat outside just waiting it occurred to me that most of the stuff I was selling was stuff I have been hauling around for over thirty years.
Dang that is a very long time, now a lot of it is memorabilia from Elvis Presley but that’s another story. But what I thought was what the heck was I thinking. Especially since I have moved 4 times since 2007. Besides I am no longer a spring chicken, if you know what I mean.
I am calling it junk because after awhile that is what it becomes. People just accumulate things that they can’t or won’t part with. Junk comes in all forms, from junk mail, to items of clothing we just hate to part with. Some even have what they call a junk drawer in the kitchen were they just throw little things like nuts and bolts or stick pins etc.
It is amazing how while we live our lives we just accumulate so much. Granted a lot of things are necessary such as small appliances and other items that are used on a daily basis.
They actually have companies and small business firms that will haul away your junk for a fee. I am certainly glad that I don’t have the mindset of a hoarder I watched that show a few times and it made me ill just to think that there are people out there who get ill having to let a piece of junk go.
Why JUNK ?
I am not sure why for a lot of people, however as I stated earlier it is all in your mind. The mind is so different from person to person. What I might consider junk another might consider a treasure. It is the mind and how each person thinks that determines what is good and what is bad.
We even let our minds fill up with junk from time to time. It’s like a tape player inside of our heads that just continually plays over and over. It has been said garbage in and garbage out. The way we think has so much to do with the way that we live.
Well I am determined to get rid of my junk, the stuff I own, and the stuff that has been inside my head for way to long.
Junk is killing our planet as well. All of the stuff that gets broken or is no longer wanted or needed by people usually ends up in a landfill. How many of those exist I have no idea but we as human beings certainly create a lot of garbage as well as junk.
I know that if and when I move again I am taking less with me than I did when I moved here. The junk and I are going separate ways that is for sure.
Hope you don’t think my post is junk ha ha !
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