It makes me ponder: How much stuff can one family accumulate? !!! I thought we were fairly good at getting rid of stuff we don't need, and also avoiding unnecessary acquisitions. I must have been fooling myself.
Yes, books are yarn are stockpiled here, but the rest....it's just stuff.
The amazing thing is the feeling I have now it's mostly gone. I am freed, somehow. That stuff that we loved welcoming in our our home carried a burden with it. The need to store, to maintain and to use, display or love all those things was a burden. It was part of what made us feel insulated within suburbia. It was part of the desire to break out.
The next two years of training will be in a home much smaller. It'll be good for us.
Strangely, I have noticed a new desire, however....the desire to fill up the cupboards with new and better stuff. I've got my eye on a GPS for travel and feeling our way around a new state. I've got my eye on a new Kuerig coffee maker (did I spell that right?). And I know my kids need new clothes ( #3 doesn't have any long pants/jeans). It isn't that I object to getting the things we need....it's just the WAAANTING of them I wish I could avoid. I was hoping I was changing. Guess I'll have to be content with my mind changing and having my heart try to struggle to follow my mind.
Anyway....did I show my house socks yet? I made them while watching the TV show, HOUSE. Yes, the blue looks like his eyes, doesn't it?
Oh, and I finished my first event in the Ravelympics. I finished the Scarf Stroke and the WIP Wrestling events when the Easy Flame Lace Scarf cast off a couple of days ago. Ravelry acknowledged the win with an award...see up top. Phelps and Luikin must be jealous. ;-)
