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
We get reminders about hanging onto the past from ballads as well as memoirs.
The Others at Myristica
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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 [...]
Stuff Multiplies
I definitely have an issue with stuff magically multiplying.
An Embarrassment of Stuff
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

Swimming Routine
In the 1950s high school swimming was neither competitive nor popular.  For the macho man, the game was gymnastics on the [...]
Prompted By Swimming
March 17, 2024
A daycare workers union, a bad back, and some prophetic words
“My ex-husband thought of himself as a ‘breast man.’” She paused. “What have I gotten myself tangled up with here? A ‘floor man?’”
Prompted By Turning Points
February 29, 2024

Past Stories You May Have Missed

Numbers
My sister checks in with the woman behind the counter, signing her name and mentioning what she’s there for. It hardly seems [...]
Prompted By Those We Miss
May 28, 2018
Temptation – My Battle to Resist Desserts
My mother loved to bake, a trait I inherited. The only way to avoid sweet treats and baked breads at home is to deny myself [...]
Prompted By Temptation
November 26, 2018

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!

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