Too good to use.
What do you do with stuff that you have that's too good to use?
That's a great question and we're going to talk about that today.
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All right, onto today's question which is from a house cleaner who was trying to help
a customer go through a bunch of stuff, and do some hoarding removal.
She ran across a particular, peculiar problem.
The customer was saving a bunch of things that are too good to use.
What do you do with those things?
All right well, the truth is most of us, most of us are guilty of having things that are
too good to use.
If you come to my house right now, I have four sets of dishes.
I have a set of fine China that is too good to use, we only use it at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
It's too good to use for the rest of the year.
Don't ask me why, it just is.
It was handed down from somebody else.
All right the second set of dishes that I have is a set of dishes that is too good to use.
They were my husband's dishes when he was a bachelor, and when we got married we bought
our own set of dishes.
We didn't buy our own set, it's a long story.
Now that I started I better tell you the story.
The story is, I didn't have the money for a fancy wedding reception at the time, so
I was going to have an open house inside my house.
In order to rent the dishes, they were going to be a dollar a piece or if I broke them
I had to replace them at a dollar a piece.
Near where I lived there's this great big store, it was a pottery store, that sold all
the exact same kind of dishes for a dollar a piece.
Instead of renting them for a dollar a piece, I bought them for a dollar a piece and then
if we broke them, then I would still have them.
We have that set of dishes and we retired the set of dishes that my husband had when
he was a bachelor.
Now those are too good to use because these other dishes are just clear glass.
They're clear glass on colored, what do you call them, chargers, decorate any plate.
They're great for holidays, for birthdays, for every day, for whatever, they're just
glass plates, they're awesome.
They've got a little decoration in them and they're fancy and whatever.
Those have become our main plates.
Then when I have the nieces and nephews come over, I have a whole set of plastic dishes,
so that if they drop on the floor they don't shutter and break.
We can eat outside and have picnics and stuff like that.
I've got four sets of dishes.
Two of them are too nice to use.
Now in all the houses that I've cleaned over the years, I've run into gobs of people that
have these huge, really expensive China cabinets.
Inside the China cabinets are things that they have that are too good to use.
It's fancy China, it's silver, very nice like little goblets and candle sticks and gravy
pourers and serving spoons and the silverware dishes themselves.
They've got these big ornate boxes that the silverware goes in, just all kinds of things
that you have to dust and clean and polish and wipe down.
Then every year near Thanksgiving or Christmas, you've got to pull all these stuff out and
re-polish and wash and get it ready to use for the holiday.
Most of us have stuff that is just too good to use.
In some people's houses it's their house itself.
They've got like these runners on the carpet so that you won't get the carpets dirty underneath,
and they have covers over their sofas and their chairs, so that if you sit on them you're
not going to get them dirty, because that's too good to use.
Who are the special people that are going to come use these stuff and when are they coming?
There are a lot of people, a lot of us are guilty of this.
We have stuff that's too good to use.
Now when I got married, my sister, bless her heart, she crocheted.
If you know crocheting, it's a little tiny hook and it was like a number 10 size hook
with this very fine thread.
She crocheted me an enormous tablecloth.
My first instinct was, well don't put that on the table because it's too good to use.
It was a huge table, I didn't even have a table at the time that was big enough for this tablecloth.
In all the years I've been married, I've never had a table that was big enough for that tablecloth.
I hate to say this, Jenifer if you're watching this, I'm going to cry, because I hope you
never watch this, I hope you don't find out, but I've never used the table cloth.
It's still in a tight gallon Ziploc bag folded up because, number one, I don't have a table
for it and number two, it's too nice to use.
Now I've got to find somebody that's got a really nice table that can honor this tablecloth
that Jennifer spent enormous hours creating.
I didn't want to spill any food on it, I didn't want to ruin it, it was so nice.
I was going to save it for special occasions and for the time when I got the great big
oak dining room table.
You know, that never happened, the table we have is a round top and it will hold four
or five people and that's about it.
We never did get the table and I've never used the tablecloth.
It's too nice to use and I don't want to ruin it.
What do you have in your house?
What do you have that you're hanging onto that's too nice to use?
Is it some particular clothing that you're saving?
It's a dress, it's a pair of jeans, it's a purse, it's a pair of shoes, we all have stuff,
we're all guilty of having stuff that's too good to use.
We're saving it for some imaginary special occasion or an imaginary special person that's
coming to visit that then we're going to pull out our finest and then what, they're going
to get it dirty, like what is that?
My little sister Julie had this great idea a couple of years ago that she was going to
use all the stuff that was too good to use right now right here in real-time.
She started wearing the fancy jeans and wearing the nice purse and wearing the expensive shoes
even though they were everyday activities.
What happened was, she got a lot of joy out of saying, "I'm the person that's special
enough, I get to wear this stuff that's special enough, because today, today I'm alive, today,
today is the special occasion."
If you're going through a hoarders houses and even hanging on to stuff, there's probably
a lot of stuff like cheap plastic cups or cheap plastic food bins or broken toys or
whatever, there's probably something they can throw away with no regrets.
The regrets are hanging onto things and paying for storage and storing things that are going
to get passed on down to our kids that we have never used, so to our kids they have no value.
They had no value to us because we never used them, we never created an anchor or a bookmark
in their mind that, "Hey, I'm keeping this because this was really important to my mom.
It wasn't important to my mom, she never used it.
It was too good for her, she never used it.
It's just stuff."
Then you pass it on to them and there's no value for them either, but they hang on to
this stuff because they feel the obligation because you hang on to it.
Then we create these generations of hoarders.
The reality is this, if you have stuff that's too nice to use, you're good enough.
Pull it out and use it today.
If you're not going to use it, find a new home for it.
Sell it, give it away or donate it, because right now we're in a place where all of us
have too much stuff.
If you look at the storage units around me, oh my goodness, they're popping up like wildfire.
They're everywhere now.
People are buying and renting these storage units so they can store all these stuff.
It's their family's stuff and their relatives stuff that they've inherited.
It's stuff from previous relationships and previous marriages that I don't know meant
something to them at the time, but it doesn't mean anything to them now.
I promise it doesn't mean anything from here through the future.
They've moved on enough to take these stuff and put it in a storage unit.
If you're going to put it in storage unit, take a picture of it, hang onto the picture
of it and let go of the stuff.
Get rid of it, sell it, give it away, donate it, I don't care what you do with it, but
get rid of it.
There's no sense in us hoarding stuff and hanging onto stuff, because stuff is too good to use.
If you're not going to use it, get rid of it.
My suggestion in the vein of organization, tidying up, cleaning up, it may spark joy,
but if all it is a spark, let it go.
It's either a part of your life or it's not.
If it's not part of it, move on, because as you're evolving, we all evolve every day,
we become new people.
As you move forward, you're not looking at stuff that's in the back, we're not looking
at stuff behind you.
That stuff had meaning 20 years ago, it may not have meaning now, so give yourself permission
to move on.
All right that's my two sense for today and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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