Dispossession Pending
Resolution #1: Exorcise!31 total reviews
Comment from kmoss
I absolutely love this piece! The title and accompanying description are wonderful! I have been feeling this way a lot lately. I've been working from home since March and I've been tossing stuff out since April! I think I might have donated my dress clothes too soon. I hope I never get called back to the office. One positive to this crazy time that we are currently living in. Sorry for the personal rant about my stuffed demons. Nicely done.
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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I absolutely love this piece! The title and accompanying description are wonderful! I have been feeling this way a lot lately. I've been working from home since March and I've been tossing stuff out since April! I think I might have donated my dress clothes too soon. I hope I never get called back to the office. One positive to this crazy time that we are currently living in. Sorry for the personal rant about my stuffed demons. Nicely done.
Comment Written 04-Nov-2020
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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Thank you for the lovely ssssssurprise! So many erstwhile office workers are jettisoning their clothes--probably no need to worry about being hasty--who knows if businesses will ever reopen--Coronaphobia runs rampant. Thanks for stopping by! Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Mary Vigasin
Good advice. I enjoyed the read.
Someday I will write about my "stuff" I have a husband who does not want to toss anything out. My house is overstuffed with "We may need it some day." I did get him to give to charity some stuff as long as someone can use it.
So I appreciate your writing about dispossession.
Best regards,
Mary
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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Good advice. I enjoyed the read.
Someday I will write about my "stuff" I have a husband who does not want to toss anything out. My house is overstuffed with "We may need it some day." I did get him to give to charity some stuff as long as someone can use it.
So I appreciate your writing about dispossession.
Best regards,
Mary
Comment Written 04-Nov-2020
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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Thanks for stopping by, Mary. Seems everyone can relate to clutter! Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Carmen Ducharme
How clever you are ! To put together a poem of being basically well kind of sort of , A pack rat .I like to believe I am not but my children tend to think I am just by the words that you spoke .It seems I use those same analogues all the time .lol
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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How clever you are ! To put together a poem of being basically well kind of sort of , A pack rat .I like to believe I am not but my children tend to think I am just by the words that you spoke .It seems I use those same analogues all the time .lol
Comment Written 04-Nov-2020
reply by the author on 04-Nov-2020
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You are quick, Carmen! Just posted this. Thanks for stopping by.
Comment from lyenochka
Well, have you succeeded? How far along are you in the dispossession project? It always sounds like such a good idea but somehow, I have a great deal of difficulty and it's harder when it's stuff dear well-meaning people have given me.
reply by the author on 08-Jul-2020
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Well, have you succeeded? How far along are you in the dispossession project? It always sounds like such a good idea but somehow, I have a great deal of difficulty and it's harder when it's stuff dear well-meaning people have given me.
Comment Written 08-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 08-Jul-2020
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Alas, I practice not what I preach! Thanks for stopping by. Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Margaret Bednar
GoodWill not Gucci - that is a CLEVER marketing logo! I moved out of a 4,500 square foot house into less than half that size and got rid of rooms of furniture. Gave it away. It felt great! I have purged several times since then - no holiday decor other than a few Christmas boxes of sentimental items and NOTHING allowed under beds and no clutter. Lots of other rules I have. I like your humor hear playing with the truth... and why do we keep ugly stuff in the basement storage area?
reply by the author on 08-Jul-2020
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GoodWill not Gucci - that is a CLEVER marketing logo! I moved out of a 4,500 square foot house into less than half that size and got rid of rooms of furniture. Gave it away. It felt great! I have purged several times since then - no holiday decor other than a few Christmas boxes of sentimental items and NOTHING allowed under beds and no clutter. Lots of other rules I have. I like your humor hear playing with the truth... and why do we keep ugly stuff in the basement storage area?
Comment Written 08-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 08-Jul-2020
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Alas, I practice not what I preach! Thanks for stopping by. Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Spitfire
Love the humor in this. (I go for GoodWill, not Gucci.)(Rite of exorcism) You make some good points here about keeping stuff that doesn't do anything for you. Great listing. Having moved four times over four years and downsized every time, I feel so much lighter. I should get rid of my own karaoke machine, but I keep thinking I'll find time to practice singing again and put on a show. I did that four years ago.
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Love the humor in this. (I go for GoodWill, not Gucci.)(Rite of exorcism) You make some good points here about keeping stuff that doesn't do anything for you. Great listing. Having moved four times over four years and downsized every time, I feel so much lighter. I should get rid of my own karaoke machine, but I keep thinking I'll find time to practice singing again and put on a show. I did that four years ago.
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thanks for the bonus star to wish on as I head off happily to dreamland (I was just about to sign off at 12:30am) I'm thrilled you enjoyed this. Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Louise Michelle
LOL - I must say I don't have this problem because I'm a compulsive thrower outer. That aside, you did a terrific job with this posting. A great sense of humor shines through from beginning to end. Hugs, Lou
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2020
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LOL - I must say I don't have this problem because I'm a compulsive thrower outer. That aside, you did a terrific job with this posting. A great sense of humor shines through from beginning to end. Hugs, Lou
Comment Written 11-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2020
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Sorry for the delay, Louise--trying to catch up here. Usually I work backwards but this time I'm tending to first things first. Your turn! So pleased that you enjoyed my piece--nice to find humor amidst the pathos of life. Cheers. LIZ
Comment from RodG
Well, I should take lessons from you and "dispossess" all that's in a closet and most of what fills my shelves. Mostly, I like your humorous (not quite sardonic) tone and your two check-lists. Rod
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2020
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Well, I should take lessons from you and "dispossess" all that's in a closet and most of what fills my shelves. Mostly, I like your humorous (not quite sardonic) tone and your two check-lists. Rod
Comment Written 11-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2020
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Rod: Sorry for the delay--trying to catch up here. Usually I work backwards but this time I'm tending to first things first. Your turn! So pleased that you enjoyed my piece--nice to find humor amidst the pathos of life. Cheers. LIZ
Comment from KyColonel Randal
Thank you for sharing this. I definitely relate. I am not a hoarder per-say, but I have a problem letting stuff go. This is probably very good advice which all too often falls on deaf ears. I felt myself pushing back even as I read it..."but I paid x dollars for that" "I might use that someday" etc.
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reply by the author on 06-Mar-2020
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Thank you for sharing this. I definitely relate. I am not a hoarder per-say, but I have a problem letting stuff go. This is probably very good advice which all too often falls on deaf ears. I felt myself pushing back even as I read it..."but I paid x dollars for that" "I might use that someday" etc.
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Comment Written 06-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2020
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Thank you, Colonel! Alas, all of us can relate to feeling STUFFed. I'm overwhelmed enough just owning the house itself. Last month I posted a similar piece on that theme called "Anchored," which described my feeling stuck, thanks to my son's two-ton library.
Cheers. LIZ
Comment from Michele Harber
I want to begin my review with a question: Will you please be my personal assistant, walking me through my apartment clean-up with the same sense of humor you show in your story? Perhaps that might distract me enough to forget that what I'm throwing out was actually earmarked for my granddaughter - if my 15-year-old daughter ever grows up, gets married, has kids, and if one or more of them is a girl.
The advice you give is excellent, but the way you give it is even better. You have a marvelously wry sense of humor that makes me realize how silly it is to keep some of what I've been keeping, without making me feel embarrassed for having done so.
By the way, I did try saying that tongue-twister three times fast, and I was successful - but it was three day's before I could get my tongue straightened out to where I could speak again! For some reason, my husband wanted me to find out if you had any more good tongue twisters you could suggest. Hmm ....
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2020
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I want to begin my review with a question: Will you please be my personal assistant, walking me through my apartment clean-up with the same sense of humor you show in your story? Perhaps that might distract me enough to forget that what I'm throwing out was actually earmarked for my granddaughter - if my 15-year-old daughter ever grows up, gets married, has kids, and if one or more of them is a girl.
The advice you give is excellent, but the way you give it is even better. You have a marvelously wry sense of humor that makes me realize how silly it is to keep some of what I've been keeping, without making me feel embarrassed for having done so.
By the way, I did try saying that tongue-twister three times fast, and I was successful - but it was three day's before I could get my tongue straightened out to where I could speak again! For some reason, my husband wanted me to find out if you had any more good tongue twisters you could suggest. Hmm ....
Comment Written 06-Mar-2020
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2020
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Thank you Michele! Bonus star much appreciated--it will come in handy to offset a revenge review that could come my way. (Just kidding--I hope.) I'm pleased that you appreciate my sense of humor--right back at you! You sure are a sly one--telling me that your husband requests a tongue-twister (purportedly) on your behalf. (Who does he think he's kidding!) Try this one: Don't Dilly Dally Debbie Do Danny's Dicky. Cheers. LIZ
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I fooluthly twied the tongue twithther and dith wuth duh wethult. My huthband theth you need to twy harder cauth he can thtill hear me.