Priorities

So, I'm sorting out stuff in our in-escrow island place to get put into storage or get moved to our place in Seattle or to the place we bought in California for my mom once this place closes.

Besides yarn, I have other things I own much more of than I need - exercise videos for example.

I started working out to videos in 1999, a couple of years before I started knitting again. That's another world that non-practitioners often don't get. Exercise videos get discussed and traded on specialty forums. Over 1,000 different titles can be bought new right now and many more out of print ones show up in the second-hand markets. Some are real quite good.

I don't own 1,000 videos - quite. I do have enough in this house that when I went to sort out the ones I wanted to hang on to, I made a large pile of ones I couldn't remember well enough to make the decision. The plan was to watch them while I knit so I could remember if they rated keeping.

As I sat there that evening with my knitting and a pretty good ballet tape running, I glanced at some baskets of things on the floor I still needed to sort. On the top of a stack of magazines sat the two Lucy Neatby DVDs I'd bought but not yet watched.

The ballet tape finished playing and I set it on the keep shelf. Then I went back through the pile of undecided videos, pulled out a half dozen I likely would want, and filled a grocery bag for the local library's sale with the rest.

I still have dozens of exercise videos I use and will keep. Right now my knitting time is limited as I sort through thirteen years of accumulation in between trips to California to finish settling my mother. Much as I like my workouts, if I have a choice, I'd rather spend that time with Lucy.

I have my priorities.

Comments

[Karen B.]

We accumulate lots of baggage along the way, don't we? I have both exercise and Lucy Neatby DVDs I have yet to watch. Still shrink-wrapped. Lot of good they're doing.

Best of luck to you on lightening the load :o)

[ashpags]

Yes! And good priorities they are! =)