Want to improve a home? Get rid of superfluous junk that continues to build up like some sort of mold that just can’t be gotten rid of. It’s a fact that we have more and more ‘stuff’ laying around that is hardly ever put to any good use after the first few times we’ve tried it out. For instance, maybe there’s an old wet dry vacuum that was replaced by a new one, yet the old one just won’t go away.
It just might be that the vacuum could come in handy someday as an emergency backup for the new one we bought long ago or perhaps we’re thinking like NASA does when it comes to the space shuttle and extra computers and such. Redundancy can be important, especially when the basement floods and the big new vacuum we have just can’t handle the load by itself, though we know the real truth of things.
In keeping with that line of thought, take a walk into the garage and eyeball all of the things that have been stacked up inside over time. Maybe we once had a garden — or maybe we still have one but it’s being worked on by gardeners — and we loved the garden blowers that we got at the local home improvement store, though we haven’t used these blowers for quite some time.
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.
A great example of this is the fact that we might once have owned a really nice motorcycle but got rid of it long ago to fund the building of a brand-new nursery up on the second floor where the twins now happily spend their evenings. However, we neglected somehow to toss the full face helmet that came with the bike. It’s now occupying a place over the mantle, gathering dust and slowly rotting.
Of course, if one were being logical, the helmet would have been gone long ago but maybe we’ve convinced ourselves that we aren’t totally the domesticated beasts we really are. In fact, there’s a good chance that a replacement bike is just over the horizon, maybe 20 or so years from now when the girls are safely through college. There it will be, in the driveway, waiting to be ridden.
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.
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