The Stuff We Accumulate — we never realize what all we accumulate until either you are packing up to move or when a loved one passes away.
The Stuff We Accumulate
I have noticed this in the past when I have moved a few times in my life. But, recently more so with the passing of my mom … packing up all of her stuff.
My sister passed away during COVID, that made me my mom’s only surviving child. That left my wife and I to box up my mom’s belongings from her apartment.
I did have my daughter and two nieces, but this wasn’t something for them to have to deal with. Yes, my daughter and oldest niece both are adults, still not what they need to have to deal with too.
Packing up my moms stuff to put in storage unit and going through her stuff, I was amazed at some of the stuff my mom had accumulated over the years. We kept important documents and few things home with us.
The rest was put in a storage unit where we plan to go through it. We will decide what to keep, pass down to my daughter and nieces, her granddaughters. Plus there is stuff we will donate to senior centers or such like some of my mom’s hobby items she had. Might be stuff we can sell or giveaway.
As humans we do tend to accumulate stuff. Each and everyone one of likes different stuff and even hobbies and therefore not everyone accumulates the same things.
My mom liked adult coloring books, coloring mediums, snowmen and angels. I like pirates, lighthouses, rubber ducks, little stuffed animals, and sewing stuff. My wife she likes Peanuts / Snoopy, Stitch, Hippos and Diamond Dots. Each one of us has different likes.
Why do we all like different things? The answer simply is God made us all unique. If He made us all the same we would be more like robots.
Anyways, we do end up acquiring a lot of items in our life time but remember, The U-Haul Truck Doesn’t Follow the Hearse When You Die.
I am very thankful for the two men who came out to help me load my mom’s stuff from her apartment to the U-Haul truck then into the storage unit. It will be there until we can go through her stuff little by little.
We have had to make choices to keep (myself, my daughter or for my nieces), donate or trash this will go on until we go through it all.
The Stuff we don’t take with us … The stuff I have now one day will be divided between my wife and my daughter.
This is just a rambling blog post. I’ll close for now.
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