Comments on: Christmas Crazy: Dear Heather and John

By: corymbia

corymbia — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:33:37 +0000

Hey – you mean I’m not the only person who hoards stuff?
The sad part is that I hate clutter.
I just have so much trouble binning stuff that could be useful .. even if that bin has a big yellow lid (recycling) or it says “St Vinnies” on the side.

By: Greta

Greta — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:25:16 +0000

Hee hee, you Rock, Amanda! Hey, raiding dumps and council pick-up days is not materialistic, it’s environmentally responsible! At least that’s what I keep telling myself…

I’ve been on a massive de-clutter mission (I was forced to do it because of my big move), and I’m quite freaked out and confronted that I’ve clung on to so much junk for so long!

Among it: incomplete packs of cards; about six different kinds of moisturiser (I only use one kind); enough matchbox cars with broken wheels to fill a shipping container; ridiculous amounts of clothes that have been sitting there for five years “for when I lose my baby weight” (ha!); smelly, rancid make-up (I never ever use make-up); an embarrassing amount of washed-out glass jars and plastic containers that have been gathering dust for years so I can “re-use them and do my bit for the environment” (not much point when they’re just turning your house into a recycling depot);

OK I could probably keep you scrolling down for hours with my ebbarrassingly long list, but I’ll stop now –

“Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones” – that’s me! I’ve accumulated far too much “stuff” for my liking. I’m hoping to retrain my brain a bit, it really is draining to have to go through and sort it out.

By: corymbia

corymbia — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:46:13 +0000

Ahh materialism.
Well, sorry to say but we RULE in the materialism stakes … providing you only count having a lot of “stuff” as being materialistic. Pity that most of its been salvaged from the dump so its not much use when trying to brag about it.

…and yeah – we are gonna have to work on K, Mel and E to get themselves a *real* blog. Besides, I need someone to tell me how to set this thing up properly.

By: Greta

Greta — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:47:09 +0000

Hee hee, I write a lot of letters that I would never send – because if I sent them the recipient would never speak to me again (hmm, that might not be such a bad thing, actually…)

It’s so therapeutic, isn’t it?

Smug people bug me, too. Especially if I sense that it’s all for show. I have one rellie who is smug because she has lots of junk in her house (wide screen tellies, a huge spa bath that takes half the town water supply to fill, a brand new car that’s worth more than all of my assets put together etc).

The hilarious thing is, she thinks I will envy her because she has all this rubbish.

But I don’t envy her AT ALL, because I know she’s held by a ball and chain to her MULTIPLE credit card debts which she will probably never repay in the course of her natural life. Would I want to have that kind of debt hanging over my head? No thanks. I think I’ll stick to my regular bathtub and twenty-dollar TV, THANKS ALL THE SAME.

Hey, you know what? I can click on the links from your comments on my blog, and come straight to your blog! I love our new blogs. Pooh to Tom, I say! Good riddance! Now, if we can just convince K, Mel and E to come here…

By: corymbia

corymbia — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:22:16 +0000

Outnumbered: Thankfully I’ve only got 1 newsy e-mail that was pretentious enough to call itself a “virtual Christmas card”

Greta (so glad you are here : I think it was the smugness of the thing that got me “we are so perfect don’t you wish you were us” … and I admit that I started writing a “proper” one back, but found that I really couldn’t say the things I wanted to (damn that self-censorship!).