the STUFF Monster

I have a stuff problem. Stuff everywhere. Too much stuff and not enough everywhere. It drives me crazy. I can't stand it! Some days I want to get a bulldozer and just bury it all and start over. But of course that is not going to happen. We need the house to live in and the bulldozer would kind of mess that up. so I have to try to tame the stuff monster another way. so I go to throw all the stuff in bags and toss it out by the curb for the garbage truck. But wait! here in the stuff is something special, I can't throw that out, and here is something else I like. and I can't get rid of THIS! ...and so I face the stuff monster's most fearsome aspect. It is made of things I want to keep. Collectively I see them as the hated clutter of stuff, but individually I find that I like my stuff. so on it goes. Someday I will tame the stuff monster. I will not give up! I shall persevere! I will find new homes for the stuff I do not need. I will throw away the things that really are trash. I thin out the kids toys, and their cloths and my clothes and the dishes and gadgets in the kitchen, and MAYBE even my sewing and craft stash, until we have just what we need and have space for, and no more. I am determined to do this, but I expect it will take a very long time. I might not accomplish it till around the time the kids graduate from high school, But I WILL defeat the stuff monster! I WILL!