Spring Throw Away

The sun is shinning and very few clouds are across the sky. At 6:30 this morning it was 21 degrees. The weatherman, who is often wrong, is predicting a high of 50. Spring could actually be wining its way to southeastern Idaho. There is something about sun that changes attitudes. I suppose that is why spring brings a frenzy of cleaning and clearing our homes. For me it is not cleaning and scrubbing and painting that excites me, but throwing things away or handing them over to someone else. I have STUFF!! Most of this stuff hides in my closet. Just because I have a walk-in closet there is no hard core rule saying I have to fill it. I am not obligated to bring half of the Gap or Dillards merchandize home to store.

There are items I have not touched or moved in months. Apparently, I must not like them, don't feel good in them or I bought them just because I could. Thank heaven for big black garbage bags. I heard no cries of pain or sadness as I pulled sweaters, shirts, pants, and shoes off the hangers and shelves and deposited them in the bag. It is time to move on for the clothes and me. They need a new live in some other closet. I will be happier if they move on and so will another person who falls in love with my no longer wanted clothes. It will be a new and refreshing beginning. When items are no longer used they have no value and just become stuff. Owning stuff is cumbersome and in the long run we turn from owner to being owned. Why would I want to keep a sweater I wore on vacation Three years ago? It served its purpose at the time and for a period after, but now I have four sweaters I bought for two other vacations and love none of them enough to see them occupy space just for the sake of occupying space. I keep walking into the closet to see the empty spots on shelves and the spaces between hangers. It makes me feel good and reminds that I am in charge! I am liberated.