[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Item 300447369243

[Michael Howell]

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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:28:38 PM
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Too much stuff is an albatross around your neck.
Dealing with it is time and soul draining.  
Most of us need to realize 
that there are a lot more days behind than there are ahead.  
Decide what you really, really care about.
Shed the rest as quickly as you can.  Be ruthless.  

Amen to that.   At 55 I have collected so much stuff that I barely have room to move around in it.  Yet every time I try to thin it I usually don't end up creating more than a few cubic feet of extra space.  My advice to the younger people out there is to be very selective in what you choose to store for the long haul.  Once it is packed away, it is a lot of work to go through it and do something with it.  And if we, the people who thought it was worth keeping in the first place, have trouble sorting the good from the bad, how are our heirs going to do it.

Mike
Tishomingo, Mississippi