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[quote=Hobie]Will check it out. Thx. Clutter is a giant thorn in my marriage. Remember when your parents saved every copy of National Geographic mag. Why, just why? .. And think of the $$ all the crap represents.. only to throw way. Still not ready for the nude 5 day course though 🙂

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Strangely I had to keep a whole shelf of national geo. And probably 10y. Of DISCOVER magazines.

My oldest has read them all several times and can recall relevant articles and find them on the shelf when a topic came up even when much younger. Theose magazines just spark so much joy for me on the shelf. Cannot toss. maybe ever. but other thigns went out like nothing…i just love to see him come home and pore over january 2005 ….

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[quote=UCGal]Thanks for the recommendation. I just put a hold on it through the library. But there are 18 people ahead of me in the queue. That’s ok – it will let me finish “Being Mortal” – a very good book on aging/medicine/nursing homes/indpendence/etc… by Atul Gawandi.[/quote]

that gawande book is on my wife’s nightstand. on my nightstand: a new translation of stanislavski’s acting texts.

it’s just amazing when a book actually affects your life. ideas actually matter.

THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE changed everything for me back in 2001.

now, marie kondo with the KonMari method.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Can be dangerous if one grows beyond one’s environment and circumstances[/quote]

yeah i m kind of like a bonsai tree, all wired up in a shallow pot just trying to live in a tiny space. you cant just unwind all that wire and let me go nuts, i’d die…

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[quote=Hobie]Will check it out. Thx. Clutter is a giant thorn in my marriage. Remember when your parents saved every copy of National Geographic mag. Why, just why? .. And think of the $$ all the crap represents.. only to throw way. Still not ready for the nude 5 day course though 🙂

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Just get Marie kondo’s book. It could change things….there is truly an art to discarding things.

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ok. will watch.

you may not be ready for decluttering.i wasnt for many eyars…actually a whole lifetime. there is a lot of psychological stuff going on with extra things. anyway, int he last month, ive taken several vanloads of crap to the goodwill. also my office is pristine, where previously id leave things out to linger and stare at me….

strangely, I am eating less junk food and feel no craving for alcohol. I also am feeling less desire for material things.

im telling you, when the time comes, read the book, or at least google the author MARIE KONDO and see what she ahs to say. you can get most of th einfo online in her interviews. the book is very short an dmemorable tho.

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Kundalini meditation?
I know a guy….

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Radical honesty is probably silly.

Maybe moderate conservative honesty…

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[quote=moneymaker]It’s possible, just not likely. My half brother is in rehab for the upteenth time. I personally think he would be better off (and happier) living in a commune with professional brain washers who would have a better chance of changing him.[/quote]

i think i could change. dramatically.

my middle kid recently figured out im a truly wacked out liberal. he asked me tonight if being liberal was best. i said, what the hell do I know? nothing! I have no idea whats best…

i could change my mind about everything tomorrow!

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[quote=moneymaker]Next time you sit down for dinner take your wife by the hands and have a staring contest, that should shake things up a bit. By the way let us know who wins and don’t be ashamed if it’s her. If you haven’t “found” yourself by the time you’re 40 then you’re probably lost. P.S> Above link reminds me of the movie “interstellar” where even the computer(who’s truthful 90% of the time) says it ok to lie sometimes.[/quote]

cannot people change and grow even when 40, 50, 60…70? that was one thing that drove me so nuts about my parents. their belief system never really got updated…

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[quote=Blogstar]Probably not.[/quote]

guy was so fake and pesky.

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I was talking with this lawyer who wanted to be friends but he was annoying the crap out if me.

I think I’m sometimes that guy.

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I want to be me but more real.

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IVF is super cheap in mexico. I guess that’s where we need to have babies too.

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Kids today. Boy howdy.

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Kill your tv.

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