It’s Bagster Week in my house!
What’s Bagster Week? It’s the one week each year that I get to purge the piles of random, broken, and outdated “stuff” that we have accumulated.
My husband is maniacal about recycling, composting, and donating. It’s honorable, and I love him for it and appreciate it deeply. But it leads to old electronics, paint cans, and “we might use this for something ten years from now” random buckets and crutches and carpet remnants in piles and stacks and corners all around our house.
And it weighs on me. I don’t even realize how much it weighs on me throughout the year because it comes in the drip, drip, drip of Amazon boxes and party favors and school projects.
But, Bagster Week? Bagster Week is the one week each year when I muster every ounce of energy from within my exhausted shell of a self and change the gravitational force of my entire household to release the crap into the universe.
You’ve heard of “Release the Kraken!”?
We released the CRAP-EN!
I’d lie if I said that this week wasn’t one of my favorites of the year. It is the Great Unburdening. And, it reminds me each year that:
Experiences > Stuff
Time > Possessions
Space > Clutter
But this week we have two choices: we can either see it as a week of cleaning, or we can see it as a week of clarity. Either sit in the chores and the misery, or see through the crap to the future of a lighter, brighter home.
Because what I know to be true is that our future selves will always thank our past selves for doing the hard work.
In the end, I was so convincing that we ended up with not one but TWO bagsters. Christmas in June, I tell ya! Christmas in June!
(And, yes, we sent at least 25 bags of clothes, board games, kitchen items, camp trunks, and bedding to donation stations, too.)
