Comments on: Life Laundry 2009 http://www.petecullen.net/general/life-laundry-2009/ Living the Digital Lifestyle Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:31:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pete http://www.petecullen.net/general/life-laundry-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-35433 Pete Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:01:43 +0000 http://www.petecullen.net/?p=2159#comment-35433 I did not know that happened to you! Well there are certainly few things more cleansing than losing everything in a fire! That's the thing about stuff, you can always replace it if needs be. The most important things in life are irreplacable. I did not know that happened to you! Well there are certainly few things more cleansing than losing everything in a fire!

That’s the thing about stuff, you can always replace it if needs be. The most important things in life are irreplacable.

]]> By: Ian Lankford http://www.petecullen.net/general/life-laundry-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-35427 Ian Lankford Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:44:09 +0000 http://www.petecullen.net/?p=2159#comment-35427 Yah, around December and January I do the same thing at home and at work. About 5 years ago now I had a house fire (on Jan 1st) and lost 95% of everything I had . . . and the 5% I saved, most of it was stuff I didn’t care about (it just happened not to burn). I did manage to save the dog, the TV, and the original x-box . . . well the dog escaped early and part of the ceiling fell on the TV and x-box and actually saved them (I didn’t run back in to get them or anything). I, and the rest of my family, just had a lot of stuff in the house (this was the house I grew up in, I took over the mortgage payments from my parents when they moved out). We weren’t hoarders or anything, we just saved a lot of stuff over the years. At first the fire seamed like the worst thing that ever happened to me . . . I lost everything. But looking back, the fire was one of the best things that ever happened. I didn’t loose everything . . . I lost stuff. No one was hurt in the fire, which a lot of people cant say. It’s sad that it took a fire to make me come to the same conclusion you have and do some Life Laundry, to see that stuff doesn’t make me happy . . . but at least I got there. Even now my apartment is sparsely furnished and decorated . . . partly due to the fact that I’m a bachelor and spend most of my extra money on games, but I also have a renewed sense of ‘do I need this or do I just want a new thing ?’ But it’s freeing to realize that if my place burned down again, and I lost ‘everything’ again, I’m really not loosing anything important. Yah, around December and January I do the same thing at home and at work.

About 5 years ago now I had a house fire (on Jan 1st) and lost 95% of everything I had . . . and the 5% I saved, most of it was stuff I didn’t care about (it just happened not to burn).

I did manage to save the dog, the TV, and the original x-box . . . well the dog escaped early and part of the ceiling fell on the TV and x-box and actually saved them (I didn’t run back in to get them or anything). I, and the rest of my family, just had a lot of stuff in the house (this was the house I grew up in, I took over the mortgage payments from my parents when they moved out). We weren’t hoarders or anything, we just saved a lot of stuff over the years.

At first the fire seamed like the worst thing that ever happened to me . . . I lost everything. But looking back, the fire was one of the best things that ever happened. I didn’t loose everything . . . I lost stuff. No one was hurt in the fire, which a lot of people cant say. It’s sad that it took a fire to make me come to the same conclusion you have and do some Life Laundry, to see that stuff doesn’t make me happy . . . but at least I got there.

Even now my apartment is sparsely furnished and decorated . . . partly due to the fact that I’m a bachelor and spend most of my extra money on games, but I also have a renewed sense of ‘do I need this or do I just want a new thing ?’ But it’s freeing to realize that if my place burned down again, and I lost ‘everything’ again, I’m really not loosing anything important.

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