| If you have a job, count that as a blessing. The internet has made most of us materialists and carnal. It sure did that to me. I recently sold my powerful desktop and traded my monitor for a few hundred bucks and I've been left with a bunch of cables that I no longer need nor wish sell. So I'm just going to hand them to Goodwill. I have been cleaning my whole apartment from wall to wall now for the last week and a half. I will be 100% done tomorrow. My apartment did not show evidence of life in it for years because I was too concentrated on my monitor screen. Life and the days rolled by seemingly I was barely in it to make any difference. I finally got a job that I like that is not tech oriented and now I spend most of my time standing and although my feet hurt I feel stronger now because of it. I had a lot of high hopes with some work that I was doing but I was not thinking clearly to see it was really just a hobby that can't have legs. The process of liquidation takes a certain threshold. When you start to notice it is already a little late. I took out 7 contractor sized bags of laundry and did the wash on anything made of fabric. I then took my wardrobe and started tossing stuff I didn't like or donating the better parts that didn't fit to the thrift. I replaced all my tshirts with polo to match my new employer dress code. Each shirt only cost $4 to replace from the salvation army (new ones would cost at least 4 times as much). I got smaller pants that now fit mostly without a belt though I still have wear one. I spent about $150 of my new money for things like pillows and bedding and throw pillows and some GFS food. I did some fun entertaining in my now clean apartment today. I made gyros from a kit I bought and made a salad for my brother. After that I toasted some marshmallows on the range and made smores in the oven. I have found that food pleases more than music if you know how to do either. I've got plans to do some more entertaining now that I can do it. I didn't think of that when I started but now it seems doable. The more face time I have the better I feel. I think the Lord is behind us for downsizing. We really don't need a lot of the stuff we've acquired. |