📚 node [[it s all too much]]
- Author:: [[Peter Walsh]]
- Full Title:: It's All Too Much
- Category:: [[books]]
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Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]
- Does this item enhance the life we want to live?
- Sure—just give me ten minutes to find them. Or an hour.
- Wood polish and a rag—I was just wiping it.
- The clutter somehow becomes a life raft for all the “just in cases” we can imagine
- Excuse #1: “I Might Need it One Day.”
- Do I even remember what’s inside these boxes? Do I need it? Do I honor and respect it?
- In any year, more than two-thirds of households in this country spend a sizable portion of their disposable income on videos and DVDs, music and CDs, books and magazines, specialized personal care products, and candles. More
- I have every issue of National Geographic ever published. It’s an outstanding collection
- A handful—we use them to recycle newspapers
- Maybe tomorrow. The living room’s a mess, but I can hide it away in a few hours
- Did the stuff they owned contribute to the lives they were hoping to achieve, or was it getting in the way of that vision?
- They fit, I guess, but I have no idea what’s on the top shelf
- “If you met Jen for the first time today, is this the bedroom you’d want to bring her home to?”
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/it-s-all-too-much
- video call at meet.jit.si/it-s-all-too-much
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