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Recently I moved. We needed to sort our stuff to fill the boxes. It’s amazing how many things you can accumulate. All more useless than the others. We say, I’ll keep it, it can always be useful but finally apart from filling closets and taking the dust it serves no purpose. I counted more than forty plates! enough to equip the whole street.... It’s crazy! we are only four at home. And I spare you the rest because the list would be too long.
But the hardest was yet to come. The Gremlins! ( I call my kids that, not because they are ugly but because they are very often uncontrollable, experts in nonsense and show great determination when it comes to doing what they want). How to make them agree to part with the Spiderman who is missing an arm and a leg, this half-torn Pokemon card that looks like nothing? And what to say about all these plastic trinkets hanging around the house? You know, those little toys from Happy Meal McDonald or Kinder Surprise. It was a fierce struggle, a high-intensity conflict, if I may say so, with each insignificant object being hotly debated. But in war as in war. At the risk of being denounced for not respecting the Geneva conventions, I admit that I did not hesitate to wait until they were not at home or that they sleep to throw a maximum in the trash.
All this to say that it is in these moments that we realize how rich we are. Believe me that in 9 years we have accumulated a wealth worthy of the sultan of Brunei.

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  1. everywomans
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    Great image and subject. Over the years, I have tried to buy as little as possible, but kids and time have runneth over my basement. Now gifting items that few people will take. First world problem! Cheers.
    1. BanditFamily
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      I also try to buy as little as possible. It's clear that with children it's not easy, especially with the system that sells us unlimited bullshit. But in the end, the worst is people who give us everything they don’t need (often parents) and we end up piling up a whole bunch of useless shit. Every time my mother tells me "you wouldn’t...." I say, NO! I don’t need anything but to be left alone!
      Thanks a lot. What you say reassures me, at least I don’t feel alone. xD
  2. cormell
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    Ha ha, Gremlins. I like that better than rug rats. Spring cleaning, or moving in your case -- well, it can be soul cleansing once you realize, as you say, that the only purpose of this junk was to collect dust for the last nine years. It's funny about the old broken toys. (Geneva Convention. )In my generation it was Barbie dolls and plastic soldiers, and my kids -- transformers. My wife is a little bit of a hoarder, inherited from her mother who saved rubber bands, aluminum foil, newspapers, clothes, old furniture and so on.  But my wife is doing good this year. We have several boxes packed and ready to go to one of the local charities.
    1. BanditFamily
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      Fortunately I gave away a lot of stuff, I didn’t throw everything away. A lot of people told me, why don’t you sell them? there is a lot of business on sites like e-bay but it’s not my stuff and I don’t like to establish money relationships with people. And then finally they do me a favor by getting me rid of useless objects, I will not make them pay.