Apropos George Carlin Quote

[Bethers]

This is going around FB and so apropos for those downsizing (doing now or in the past or in the future:

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body"
George Carlin

[rvgrammy1953]

PERFECT!!! and so true....

[Nasoosie]

So very true. But what about trying to hang on to possessions one has accumulated over the years just by living? I have some things I just can't bear to part with, as they are as much a part of me as my body. I have treasures that evoke such vivid memories----better than any movies ever made.

[Liz]

Take a picture. Then make a memory lane slide show on your laptop.

[JudyJB]

George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians. He had several fantastic routines about "stuff."

Check this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

[Getupngo]

One time I had a dream that my husband and I were on the sidewalk watching our house burn down. I cried, "Oh, no, we've lost EVERYTHING." All was lost. Then my perspective shifted, and I felt as though everything was possible.

Says the woman with a storage unit full o'stuff.

[Bethers]

Take a picture. Then make a memory lane slide show on your laptop.

Excellent advice. When I scanned all my old pictures, I realized it had been years since I had really looked at some of them. I look at them more now with them so accessible.

Great video Judy. I, too, loved and miss George Carlin.

[JoanE]

My ex was a pro photographer. Last year he decided to clean out a storage unit that contained boxes and boxes of old photo albums. I took them, sorted through them, had hundreds of photos scanned for each of us by a service I found online and loaded them into two digital frames. We both love our frames.

So Liz's idea is a good one. I still have a storage unit but it is about 3x3. Next trip back to Sarasota, I will empty that too.

[JudyJB]

Way back at Christmas in 1948, my dad bought a 16 mm movie camera. Over the next 10 years, he took movies of all of my aunts and uncles, grandparents, and cousins. I eventually took them in and had them put on video tape and then more recently had them digitized to DVDs. I also took in the movies and all the slides my ex-husband got custody of during our divorce and had them put on DVDs.

The best part of all of this was being able to have copies made inexpensively and to share them with my cousins, niece and nephew, and my kids. There are so many people from my extended family who are no longer here, so these have become really precious. In addition, having spread so many copies around means that if I lose a copy of something, I will be able to get another one from someone.

I discovered some boxes of my parents stuff, including love letters from high school, as I was cleaning out all my "stuff" last year before buying my motorhome. I scanned some of it, but ran out of time and still need to go through a couple of boxes. Hope it is OK in storage in the meantime, but next spring when I go to Ohio I am going to get the moving guys that helped me pack my storage unit to help me unpack it and resort some stuff.

This sort of "stuff" is the only stuff that really counts. It was so wonderful to find all the treasures that had been packed away for decades that I did not know even existed.