{"id":417,"date":"2005-09-20T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2007-08-31T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T03:58:40","slug":"simplification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/simplification\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I have an epiphany.<\/p>\n

Raisins, I realize, are not my favorite food.<\/p>\n

Hot upon the heels of that one I have another:<\/p>\n

I have too many things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I’m acting on that epiphany. I drag five garbage bags full of clothing out of my closet. I drop them at the donation site on Santa Monica at Highland. I reduce three bookcases of books down to just two shelves. The rest I donate to Out Of The Closet on Fairfax.<\/p>\n

And I flip through my DVD collection and pull out seven hundred and sixty DVDs and twenty two box sets to sell. It’s not that I don’t like the movies anymore. I love them. I just don’t need the discs. It’s that strange attachment to things<\/em> I’m rebelling against.<\/p>\n

Here’s what eight hundred DVD’s looks like stacked on my table (click on the image for a bigger pic):<\/p>\n


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This DVD purge is just part of a larger effort. When I’m done, I’ll post before\/after pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I have an epiphany. Raisins, I realize, are not my favorite food. Hot upon the heels of that one I have another: I have too many things. And I’m acting on that epiphany. I drag five garbage bags full of clothing out of my closet. I drop them at the donation site on Santa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-pics","category-daily-drift"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t