No One Owns It........

"No one owns it, we are just borrowing it as we pass through..."

I just heard this quote on the daily talk show I listen to on BBC Radio from London.   So true so true.

This summer is a "digging through stuff" kind of summer for Dear Husbola and me.  Cleaning out closets and THE GARAGE and sorting through piles of Such Important Things that we have been holding onto for who knows what variety of reasons.

The nature of the antiques business is one of accumulation--for the next show, for the next booth re-set, for the next Just Fix This Little Widget type of thing.  I segregate little nooks in the garage and laundry room.  This will be perfect for a spring show.  This is the type of thing that sells at Odana. This would be perfect to take to auction.  This is just--oh I don't know--but I need to hold onto it.

But we really are just caretakers for awhile aren't we?  All the physical"stuff of our lives gives us comfort,  right?  Looking through that old high school box or college box gives us warm fuzzy feelings, right??   Maybe not so much.  Feng Shui aside--"stuff" is starting to make me uneasy.

All the antiques we have in our house or shop are things that other people decided to get rid of.  My previous post of all those teddy bears--  they were some other child's plaything.  But now they are going to be in someone else's house.  Dear little teddies that were near and dear to someone are getting ready to move on.  Thank heavens--the ever flowing stream of life and history and things that are the fabric of life.

This is not meant to be a downer post.  This is meant to be a permission slip to enjoy the "stuff" you enjoy and hold dear--but then give yourself permission to move it on--to the next person to enjoy.

Better get yourself a space in an antiques mall.......