Somebody Said

If you don't consider a thing useful or beautiful then get rid of it", and this is what I've been trying to do.  I suppose I'll just probably collect more junk, but I am trying to, at least, dispose of some things, which I know won't be missed once they're gone.  One such item is a textbook, in Spanish of course, on Information Technology from the year dot.  Now, with the exception of those blonde days I've been having lately, I'm quite familiar with the contents of this book.  I won't throw it away, because maybe there's somebody out there who's a newbie and this book could be useful.  Well, I do have a friend who doesn't know how to do most things on the computer, because she's afraid she might break it.  Then another friend has three brothers - one who's a computer technician, one who's quite useless and the youngest one who's completely computer illiterate; the latter I find a bit unusual for someone from his generation.  One day she mentioned to him about cleaning out the computer to which he answered: 'But it's not dirty!'

Why do some of us have more stuff than others?  I hope I never become sick like some people and refuse to throw anything away, including spoilt food. You know the kind of people I'm referring to.  I think there's one, if not more, TV programmes where the hoarders are convinced by professional organizers to part with some of their rubbish.  I can only imagine how unpleasant it would be living in a detached house and having someone like this for a neighbour, but can you imagine having hoarders living in an apartment block?  I complain about the smell when someone's frying sardines!  Anyway, just to make things clear: I don't think I've got a big problem.  It's that I think things like: maybe I'll wear that in the future, or that belonged to my mother or whatever other sentimental reason.

So I've come to the conclusion that there are three things I'm going to pack up today and palm off on someone: the textbook, a jewellery box and a stuffed cat that was my mom's, which I'll give to a child.  If I'm successful in parting with three things today, who knows what I'll throw out tomorrow?  Oh, and an article on Yahoo tells me I shouldn't go to the Containers Store (can't since we don't have any) and buy all kinds of cool containers.  They could have published the article before though as I've ordered some cool boxes from the company Vie (used to be Virgin Vie (I'm sure some of the Brits will know Vie).  One thing that won't go in the near future, and I've had it for years, is this unusual dish/dust collector (see photo).  It's still beautiful to me.