LIFE LESSON #14607--Get Rid of "STUFF"!!!

Monday is the day I go in for oral surgery to remove my wisdom teeth and so I had this idea that since I live alone now, in a small two story apartment, and MIGHT be under the influence of some pain medication, it would be best for me to stay with my parents for the first couple days since they have a spare bedroom. BAD idea. I wasn't aware that the bedroom was overrun with 45 years worth of STUFF they had accumulated and didn't know what to do with it. I just spent nearly two hours totin' boxes of this STUFF to the storage building out behind my parent's house. Sometimes I wonder if those guys who rent or sell metal storage buildings are making a killing on those people who are pack rats and refuse to get rid of the trinkets and mementos and whatever else they have accumulated over the span of their lifetimes.

I told my mom in the midst of all this work that when she and dad are dead and gone, I'm havin' a bonfire of the grandest proportions because I don't want to have to deal with cleaning out all that junk. Just pour gasoline on it and throw a match to it!!!!!

Just in case any of you are in a store and see something and think, "Oh!! I think Susan would love to have this".......wipe that thought right out of your mind!!!! Just turn around and go in the other direction. If you just HAVE to get me something, a gift certificate to a restaurant or for a manicure/pedicure would be great or a gift card to a Christian bookstore would be nice, also. I just don't want STUFF that sits around and collects dust.

Oh, and just in case you were wondering how I came up with the number 14607, that's how many days I've lived on this earth. I've had many life lessons but I think this one is the most important to date. Why keep this stuff if I can't take it with me when I die??