“You ask yourself: Is this thing worth hauling 6,000 miles across an ocean and in to a new home? Is it providing that much meaning and value to my life? If not, why bother having it now?”

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Interesting thought, quoted by Core77 in this item on Tsh Oxenreider’s “Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living.” For Oxenreider, a big move (from Texas to the Middle East) was “a stake in the ground for us…. From that moment forward [we] became hyper-selective about what we allowed in our home.”

Here is the quoted essay.

Here is Oxenreider’s site.

(via unconsumption)

“What a terrible irony that her husband can go into space in a capsule and return home safely, but his wife’s safety can’t be assured outside a Safeway supermarket.”

— Eleanor Clift on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Newsweek. (via washingtonpoststyle)

File under "You can't make this stuff up":

“The Coast Guard says a nearly one-mile stretch of the Houston Ship Channel will be closed for at least four days as workers use pitchforks and fishnets to corral, pierce and remove 15,000 gallons of beef fat.” (Emphasis mine.)

(via Chron.com - Houston Chronicle)