This is a quick story from our self-help clutterers meeting
which is anonymous, but I was giving approval to give a vague depiction for
this blurb. I was going through a basket of clutter with my @timeTimer when I
came across a dress that I had purchased on sale and wore many times. It now
had a broken shoulder strap.
When I
moved it into the “trash” basket, there was a unified gasp and then complete
silence. As I moved on, hands went flailing into the air to ask questions about
the dress. I told them I had bought it for less than $10 five years ago and
that the strap never fit well. I don’t sew and the cost of paying someone
sounds silly. The cost of driving over to pay someone to fix the dress and then
driving a second time to go pick it up sounds even worse. “Well ,why don’t you
donate it?! “ Someone shouted. Great question but, I don’t think anyone wants an old dress with a
broken strap … “Make a pillow out of it!” Someone demanded.
I LOVE this group. Such enthusiasm! What would
you have done?
ClutterLess (CL) is a nonprofit, peer-based, self-help, support group for people with difficulty discarding unwanted possessions.
Room 7 at 7 pm.
NOTE We meet EVERY MONDAY
(Except some Holidays like Labor Day - Please come before or after)
7:00 to 8:30 pm at the:
St Mary & St. John Coptic Orthodox Church
RM 7, 4300 MIRADOR DR.
PLEASANTON, Ca.
(The building was formerly the Pleasanton Presbyterian Church)*
