Think back about …
Stuff
People produce and purchase piles of stuff: pots and pans, papers and paraphernalia. Some stuff we use daily. Other stuff loses its novelty or utility. Day by day, year by year, stuff circulates through our lives. What do you do with all your stuff? Do you hang on to it? Hide it away? Do you sort, organize, and store it? Or do you eject it in a desperate attempt to simplify your life? Think back about Stuff and share forward!Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
Almost Home
by
Jim Willis
We get reminders about hanging onto the past from ballads as well as memoirs.
The Others at Myristica
by
Zeque
Because I’m an animist (one of the reasons I was so enthusiastic about Dana’s Shinto post) I don’t collect “stuff” so much as [...]
Stuff – The Tyranny of Things: A Treatise on Material Malaise
Right, let’s talk about stuff. You know, that ever-expanding collection of… well, stuff. It’s the creeping [...]
An Embarrassment of Stuff
by
Khati Hendry
Another friend had a bumper sticker—“Live simply that others may simply live”—that still seems like good advice.
Ashes and Stashes
Ashes and Stashes When I retired after my long career as a librarian, I embarked on a new venture – helping people [...]
New Stories on Old Prompts
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Past Stories You May Have Missed
Words and sayings from an immigrant family
by
rosie
Playing with curse words and other oddities of family tradition.
Prompted By S#*t My Family Said
April 4, 2016
Science: a future retrospective
Then, the ecstatic carnival of scientific exploration halted. But why?
Prompted By Science
April 23, 2017
Think back about …
Stuff
People produce and purchase piles of stuff: pots and pans, papers and paraphernalia. Some stuff we use daily. Other stuff loses its novelty or utility. Day by day, year by year, stuff circulates through our lives. What do you do with all your stuff? Do you hang on to it? Hide it away? Do you sort, organize, and store it? Or do you eject it in a desperate attempt to simplify your life? Think back about Stuff and share forward!Upcoming Prompts
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