Yep !! I’ve still got Carole’s fur coat hanging up in the wardrobe….😊🥰🥰
A Forever Coat
Her favourite coat, forever hangs in my wardrobe
Unmistakably I feel the coat’s presence
Every-time I open the wardrobe door
I instinctively turn to see her family heirloom
A gift that’s been handed down from her grandmother
However, the gift she wasn’t able to wear when the sickness begun.
Not once, over the next thirty years, of frailty and fears
Time is now a broken clock face
Seven years ago, she did pass
And her favourite coat I keep, my piece of memorabilia
I do know, she’s not going to reappear
For me to gently and warmly cover her tender shoulder
Consciously I’m not sure, why the coat remains
I’ve tried to give the coat away
To a homely charity, and even a local actor’s group
Fortuitously her coat has not been accepted
Here in the wardrobe, the glorious old coat stays
Along with the other trinkets of her forever spirit
It is interesting isn’t it.
First we are barraged,
all of life with ads to buy stuff.
It will make us better,
in so many different ways.
Now we are being barraged,
by the minimalist pros,
to organize,
and get rid of stuff.
Buy their consulting services,
to help us,
buy their books,
or organizers.
Heck buy it all.
It will make us better
Some stuff will be gone.
New junk taking up space.
I am SO glad I have not fallen under the spell of the ‘how to’ books and organizers. I sit here and look at stuff and it feels like it’s closing in on me!
My sister and I literally had a box growing up, which we called, “Stuff we want to keep but don’t know what to do with.” We probably should’ve renamed it, “stuff we don’t need and should really get rid of.” I now wonder whatever became of that box and that stuff. I hope we eventually got rid of it!
Oh Val, no worries! I have no desire to keep ‘stuff’. Or pay for another place to keep more stuff. It’s more about getting the motivation to get rid of stuff.
When I sort out I look through and get rid of some and keep the maybes… but a week later I feel like the maybes are also goners so I get rid of them too. Time makes it easier with the maybes and thinking what do I want to do with it. It works for me. I got lots more to get rid of. One drawer at a time. 🙂
Oh my gosh Ute. That is EXACTLY what I have been doing. I told myself one ‘box’ a week. Little box, big box, doesn’t matter. It has helped. ANd many of the maybes have gone on to new homes.
The longer I’m around, I begin to understand why some of those ancients the archaeologists dig up now and then have enormous tombs packed full of stuff. They wouldn’t part with things in life, so their descendants buried it with them- to make room for their stuff. I’m trying to avoid that burden for my kids.
😂 this is so funny Eric! And probably true! I am hoping to not do this to my kids too. I keep telling them what I leave behind they have to deal with. They are more than happy for me to downsize the ‘stuff’ now.
Right? I love the feeling of getting rid of stuff. Surprisingly. I mean….so much time went in to gathering. I wish I had realized how stifling it would be before I spent the monies….
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instead, you find reasons to keep it )
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I really do…..
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Yes, yes…sounds exactly right!
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I had a feeling this would be relatable!
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Yep !! I’ve still got Carole’s fur coat hanging up in the wardrobe….😊🥰🥰
A Forever Coat
Her favourite coat, forever hangs in my wardrobe
Unmistakably I feel the coat’s presence
Every-time I open the wardrobe door
I instinctively turn to see her family heirloom
A gift that’s been handed down from her grandmother
However, the gift she wasn’t able to wear when the sickness begun.
Not once, over the next thirty years, of frailty and fears
Time is now a broken clock face
Seven years ago, she did pass
And her favourite coat I keep, my piece of memorabilia
I do know, she’s not going to reappear
For me to gently and warmly cover her tender shoulder
Consciously I’m not sure, why the coat remains
I’ve tried to give the coat away
To a homely charity, and even a local actor’s group
Fortuitously her coat has not been accepted
Here in the wardrobe, the glorious old coat stays
Along with the other trinkets of her forever spirit
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Oh I remember this Ivor.
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I thought you would… 😀
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😊
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so…much…stuff…
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So….so….much!!!!
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It is interesting isn’t it.
First we are barraged,
all of life with ads to buy stuff.
It will make us better,
in so many different ways.
Now we are being barraged,
by the minimalist pros,
to organize,
and get rid of stuff.
Buy their consulting services,
to help us,
buy their books,
or organizers.
Heck buy it all.
It will make us better
Some stuff will be gone.
New junk taking up space.
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Stuff. That says a lot doesn’t it? We’re cutting way back. Living simpler with less.
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That is just what we are trying to do too.
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I am SO glad I have not fallen under the spell of the ‘how to’ books and organizers. I sit here and look at stuff and it feels like it’s closing in on me!
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Well written
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Thank you 🙂
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You’re always welcome!
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You know your stuff, MBC.
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I do indeed MBM.
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Yes. Then you get rid of stuff and immediately think “Should I have got rid of that? What if………”
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YES (and sadly that is what shames me!!!)
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Exactly😊 had to repost this because it’s so true!
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OH! Thank you !!!!! 🙂
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My sister and I literally had a box growing up, which we called, “Stuff we want to keep but don’t know what to do with.” We probably should’ve renamed it, “stuff we don’t need and should really get rid of.” I now wonder whatever became of that box and that stuff. I hope we eventually got rid of it!
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I hope it still exists!!!! “That” is a different kind of stuff!!!
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I know the feeling! Just don’t buy a storage unit … PLEASE!
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Oh Val, no worries! I have no desire to keep ‘stuff’. Or pay for another place to keep more stuff. It’s more about getting the motivation to get rid of stuff.
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When I sort out I look through and get rid of some and keep the maybes… but a week later I feel like the maybes are also goners so I get rid of them too. Time makes it easier with the maybes and thinking what do I want to do with it. It works for me. I got lots more to get rid of. One drawer at a time. 🙂
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Oh my gosh Ute. That is EXACTLY what I have been doing. I told myself one ‘box’ a week. Little box, big box, doesn’t matter. It has helped. ANd many of the maybes have gone on to new homes.
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The longer I’m around, I begin to understand why some of those ancients the archaeologists dig up now and then have enormous tombs packed full of stuff. They wouldn’t part with things in life, so their descendants buried it with them- to make room for their stuff. I’m trying to avoid that burden for my kids.
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😂 this is so funny Eric! And probably true! I am hoping to not do this to my kids too. I keep telling them what I leave behind they have to deal with. They are more than happy for me to downsize the ‘stuff’ now.
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I laughed outloud, Coleen! I think you said this perfectly. You’ve described my current predicament perfectly. LOL!
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Right? I love the feeling of getting rid of stuff. Surprisingly. I mean….so much time went in to gathering. I wish I had realized how stifling it would be before I spent the monies….
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