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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like\u2026.Will Rogers<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is it about stuff that makes it so addictive?\u00a0 Is that the right word?\u00a0 Should it be comforting?\u00a0 Should it be impressive?\u00a0 Whatever the description the rampant accumulation is frightening to me.\u00a0 I had the advantage of living in a small space my whole life and stuff wasn\u2019t always an option.\u00a0 God bless himself, he loved stuff but had the good sense to live in anticipation of the big green garbage bag coming around every six months so it didn\u2019t get too out of hand.\u00a0 That\u2019s been my answer to too much stuff for many years now, the big green garbage bag, I\u2019m talking construction grade, no fooling around.\u00a0 Other people find a periodic tag sale a good way to make purging fun, gotta love the art of the deal.<\/p>\n

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I also had the advantage of a mentor who\u2019s decorating philosophy was to surround yourself with only those things you loved so everywhere you looked, wherever your eyes set, they set on something with meaning.\u00a0 This can present as a problem only if you\u2019ve got to decide what to take with you if the house is on fire\u2026.no worries all I\u2019m taking are Toto and Lina.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve noticed that it\u2019s at certain turning points (there\u2019s those words again) that one begins to shed their stuff.\u00a0 Big life changes like divorce, moving, or illness seem to bring a clarity that no longer includes stuff. Starting over in a life can give you pause; it also gives you the advantage of presenting your life the way you\u2019ve always wanted. I\u2019ve been following a blogger named Joshua Becker for some time and his becoming minimalist<\/a> philosophy presents a rational approach to minimalism.\u00a0 \u201cIt is written to inspire you to intentionally live with less. And find more life because of it.\u201d I encourage you to follow him, and his family, on their journey.\u00a0 They are not lacking for anything but the need for a big green garbage bag\u2026<\/p>\n

That said, as I look around my home I am indeed surrounded by only things I love.\u00a0 Every single thing has and is a story running the gamut of joyous to profoundly ordinary accompanied by a laugh or a sigh.\u00a0 Each thing has a legacy.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not just people it can be things too.\u00a0 It\u2019s a legacy thing\u2026you see where this is going right?\u00a0 As part of our continued story of ordinary legacies I\u2019ll be incorporating an additional blog post each week on a \u201clegacy thing\u201d.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019ll look around your own home and find those things that summon up a story and let us know about them so we can share them here.<\/p>\n

Nobody brings home the point quite like George Carlin, so enjoy one of his most famous rants about\u2026.stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like\u2026.Will Rogers What is it about stuff that makes it so addictive?\u00a0 Is that the right word?\u00a0 Should it be comforting?\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[466],"tags":[469,467,468],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-a-legacy-thing","tag-becoming-minimalist","tag-stuff","tag-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s27hQ5-stuff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}