Unnecessary Stuff

GINGER FLOWER

Wonderfully aromatic flowers blossom in our yard every day of the year on beautiful Kauai .. lending truth to the name given this wondrous place .. The Garden Island.  Since Kauaiians are also fortunate to enjoy what is possibly the best weather on our planet,   we can sit inside our homes with the windows open year round,  enjoying  the heady fragrances and perfume of these tropical beauties.  
 

SPIRAL GARDENIAS

The beautiful aroma of ginger flowers accompanied my morning coffee today.  It was a peaceful morning that stimulated a bit of thinking. 

Over the last few months I've noticed just how much stuff is around the house.  In fact, there is an over abundant supply of stuff.   I mean really, how many different varieties of our basics do we need .. isn't one of everything sufficient?  And how many appliances do we need .. have we really become so "electrified" in our daily lives that we can no longer perform the most basic culinary tasks without a compact industrial device which slices, dices, chops, shreds, and macerates Mother Natures bounty for us?   And clothing .. don't even get me started .. I've got socks and underwear in bottoms of drawers that haven't seen the light of day in years.  Go look .. bet you have them too.  Let's face it, we are a society of purchasers and we have a lot of stuff.  

I'm not judging  or saying it's a bad thing to have stuff.  Get all the stuff you want.  But something happened today .. a brief flash of reality .. a glaringly obvious sign I may have gone over the edge, into the abyss reserved for people with too much stuff.

While enjoying my coffee, accompanied by the incredible aroma of ginger flowers, I took a moment and walked into the bathroom.  

Now remember .. I live on the Garden Island .. heaven on earth .. flowers every day of the year .. scintillating nose candy which is ever present .. beauties like this ....

PLUMERIA

As I walked into the bathroom and glanced around, the question of whether we have too much stuff or not was immediately and definitively answered.  I knew my ultimate goal of becoming comfortably poor was in grave jeopardy.  Reality struck like a bolt of lightning.  If I continue living like this, I will forever be bound and ruled by stuff.  Not just stuff, but the ultimate demon Unnecessary Stuff . 





                            You are not going to believe this ..
                                                         

UNNECESSARY STUFF

                                         
                                             I am so screwed.


What is your Unnecessary Stuff?   Please Click Here and share your Unnecessary Stuff with the rest of us. I can't imagine anyone having something as unnecessary as a can of febreze Hawaiian Aloha house spray while living on the Garden Island, but something tells me each one of you will find an item of totally frivolous Unnecessary Stuff ... 

From Kauai to Paris ... and all places between

Aloha et Au revoir
Bill