Have you ever noticed how many things we gather and herd? Things jump into our hands and end up arranged into our world until we are surrounded by mountains and plains of things. Stuff that becomes our companion, distraction, and attic, basement, garage and spare room filler. It’s like there are little stuff magnets in our fingertips. We juggle things, move things, lug, dust, store, and….gather more things. Sometimes we go through and figure out who to give some to, or where to take some of it. We end up putting some on the curb and attaching a “free” sign. Even the things that deserve to be thrown away are gathered at the goodwill for another person’s magnet-fingers to find. And in the spring and fall, the dreaded “yard sale” signs go up…and we slow down the car to get a better look…
photo from flicker
A LITTLE SOMETHIN' 
stuff is stuff
love is a whole ‘nother thing
blessings
a totally whole nother thing…
Ooh, sorry to clog up your comment box. I didn’t know that leaving the link would leave a gigantic image there.
i love Poppleton.
I did notice last week that some people had enough time in their pre-evacuation notice to rent a U-Haul truck to get more stuff packed.
There’s a really good chapter in this Poppleton book about spring cleaning. If your library has it…
(But really, all the Poppleton books are really good.)
That’s a pretty apt description of my life :-)
:-) just found this and thought it was phunny…
“Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.”
Erma Bombeck
I’ve sworn off yard sales – plenty of people are happy to take it off the curb! Plus, the thrift store down the street. My biggest problem is girls + clothes.
Oh man, girls + clothes! i know!
smiling at your conclusion … so true
We hunt…we gather…we slow down at yard sales.
And not one person in the photo looks happy. An appropriate visual editorial comment.
P.S. I sold a bike this week. My former prize orange roadster. Now I’m trying not to spend the ‘found’ money on a camera I really, really want. So far I’ve resisted.
Bucks are quite wild and hard to herd.