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Relocation Dreams
I’ve so many things that there’s no place to stack them in.
No drawers to hold them, no cupboards to pack them in.
So many things stowed away from detection.
My fireplace houses its own art collection.
My wardrobe suffers from costumes aplenty.
I’ve boxes of sizes from nine up to twenty.
My jewelry box is stuffed to the gills,
my medicine drawer is spilling out pills.
When I try to cull them, they all want to stay.
The only solution’s to just move away
to find a small island with palm trees and sky
where there is simply nothing to buy!
I’ll live in a hut with floors of swept dirt.
One pair of flip flops, a simple grass skirt.
I won’t feel that shopping should be my main duty.
I’ll look out the window if I require beauty.
No buying new paintings whenever I please.
No little nicknacks and no DVD’s.
No drawers of makeup or tea towels or spoons.
No tarot cards, horoscopes, Ouija boards, runes.
I will not need things to determine my fate,
that day I walk out, simply locking my gate,
taking one suitcase, computer and cables,
and scanner and backup drives, printers and tables,
an internet router and energy backup—
just these few items to locate and pack up.
Then I’m off to a life that’s simpler by far
if these bare necessities fit in my car.
The prompt today was relocate.
As one, who is currently trying…desperately…to uncluttered, I totally related to your post! Loved your poem!
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Many of my friends doing the same.
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“unclutter”, not “uncluttered”…sorry!
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I keep trying to minimize, but all I manage to do is prevent thing from exploding even more!
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Trying to do that. Went shopping today and actually put two things back!
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Loved this. You have such a warm interesting home, just beautiful, well, except for the med stash, I can do without that!đŸ˜‚
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Ha.
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Interesting and unique home you have.
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Thanks, Phoart!
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LOL a very modern ending and not very far from the truth.
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Loved this! I have stopped acquiring, but not nearly as many things going out the door as one might think. I like my stuff! Beautiful home, Judy – with too many interesting pretties to simply discard or walk away from.
xx,
mgh
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ADD/EFD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder
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Just need to cull a bit. Tools I’ll never use, papers long past their hold-onto date. Art that has been stored away for 16 years. It needs to come to light of day. Here or in someone else’s house.
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Me too – but perhaps not immediately – lol.
xx,
mgh
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I love that!
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