If someone asked you, “Where can you reduce clutter in your life,” what would you think? Many people reading this were asked that question recently. I received the prompt just before I went to bed last night.
Somewhere between reading it late last night and when I opened my laptop this morning, a synapse or two misfired. I remembered the question as, “What can you do to reduce clutter in your life?” Accordingly, my sarcastic persona kicked in, and my working title was “One Person’s Clutter?”
If you haven’t had your daily coffee to get your system going, that working title was a play on words. I was headed down the path of writing something, opining that one person’s clutter is another person’s treasure.
I can be forgiven for confusing the issue, as my thoughts were not on writing today. My thoughts were on the 6:45 am laser surgery on my dominant eye. In fact, I started writing the piece I deleted a few minutes ago in the waiting area of the surgery center.
Yes, I arose at 5:30 am this morning to brave a chill factor of -20 degrees Fahrenheit to make my appointment with my ophthalmologist. There, she would blast the inside of my eye with a laser. Since I had the other done last week when the temperature was in the 50s, I was prepared but still concerned.
When your high-priced doctor is sitting there looking through a high-powered microscope shooting laser beams into your eye, and the equipment chirps every time she pulls the trigger, you feel like a character in a video game. Of course, this is after she places a “lens” on your eyeball that pries your eyelids open and makes everything look even weirder.
All right! Enough whining about my ophthalmology assault and the resulting confusion of my septuagenarian brain. Let’s get back to where I can reduce clutter in my life. First, though, we need to clarify what we mean by clutter.
As any red-blooded American male who loves cars or motorcycles knows, you never throw away anything related to the maintenance or repair of a vehicle. You will need it the day after you toss out the unused whatever. Then you will drive to a hardware or auto parts store and be forced to buy twenty of whatever you thought you didn’t need.
I tell my wife, “Honey, it’s not junk or clutter; it’s an emergency backup item in a disaster. The same goes for the boxes full of computer and video-related items stored under the table in my home office. I can sell some of those things online, or someone might need one, and I can help them. They’re not junk or clutter. They are potential garage sale items or replacements for something that might break down.
Of course, there is one area of my life I could take a close look at that would help with some forms of clutter: extended family and friends. However, I haven’t found the best way to approach that subject with my wife.
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