Come on people!

I wandered through the thrift store yesterday and it was one of those days where no treasures presented themselves...Everything looked like junk.

It didn't help that there were items on the shelf that were dirty -- grills coated with congealed fat (HIGHLY GROSS!), dusty tables, dirty plastic trays...Come on people!! How difficult is it to wipe a rag over these things before you donate it!! You donate to help out the non-profit running the store -- doesn't it make sense to put a little effort in to making the item as saleable as possible?? Puh-leease!! I don't fault the people who stock the store. They are a small cadre that is dealing with mountains of items, working fast to get them out on the floor and out the door...They can't clean the plethora of items stacked in the back. But each of us who donate should be able to take a couple of minutes to knock the dirt off the stuff we bring...I mean, why not???

I left the thrift store feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the junk there is in the world. We just love to have stuff, and to get new stuff, we have to get rid of old stuff...and other people buy our old stuff to add to their stuff, and we head to Walmart to fill up on new stuff...Stuff, stuff, stuff!

Some days I worry that we will be overwhelmed and suffocated by all the STUFF. It never really goes away, it just moves around -- and grows...Aughhhh! Save us from stuff!!