Have you ever just been doing “nothing” and an idea just pops into your head? That happened to me just the other day. I was out in my backyard garden just doing a little clean up work. Thus my story begins…
Some weeks ago I sat down with my trusty box of seeds that I had collected over several years. I decided to use up the seeds that had just been sitting there being seeds. I am trying to use up or give away stuff that is just sitting around not being used. I had tomato seeds from 1996 and no matter when you are reading this… it was a long time ago in seed years!
I had a cup of pole beans that looked useful. We like beans so I decided to put these to good use. I don’t know the level of your bean education, so I will explain that pole beans are climbers. It seemed logical to me to put those beans close to my tomatoes in wire cages and the beans could just share the wire for their support. Are you wondering how successful that was?
Meanwhile back at the garden… the beans started growing and growing. They started to tower over the tomatoes in their cages. I noticed that the beans were growing everywhere. That probably sounds like normal stuff to you; however, they were going great beans. The rest of the story is that the beans are not the most important part of my garden.
If you price green beans in your market on any given day, you will find they are much cheaper than tomatoes. Also, it is difficult to find tasty tomatoes in the store at any price. You see, I am a tomato lover. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like beans, too, but not as much as tomatoes.
Now, you ask, how does that apply to my clutter issues?
I began to think that those green beans were a lot like clutter. Something good, like magazines, when I get too many of them, crowd out other, more useful things in my life. They quickly outgrow the space that I have available for such storage. Piles of them stack up on the coffee table in the family room. They then spill over into the floor or the area around the fireplace. It becomes overwhelming. You see, while the beans were growing tall and reaching toward the sky, my less aggressive tomatoes were not growing nearly as well. They were being deprived of sunshine and food.
I have found when I let clutter start to creep back into my life, it crowds out my time and energy. It takes a conscious effort to keep my “stuff” under control. How does your mess affect your life and lifestyle? Really think about it and see if you want to commit to being an over-comer.
The rest of the bean story is that I quickly pulled up the beans that were crowding out my tomato plants. I left the plants alone that were growing in a place set aside for them. I did not just trash the discarded plants, I chopped them up with the mower and added them to the compost pile where they could be repurposed back into good soil.
That reminded me that I can put my clutter discards to good use by giving them away to someone in need, or selling them in a yard sale. It is not a matter of just tossing out good items because I have too much of a good thing. Is this one of the things that bothers you about organizing your stuff?
The lesson of this “Bean Tale” is that beans in the right place were useful and the ones that overpowered something I wanted more, were a hindrance. So, do you have things in your life that are out of place and what are you willing to do about them?
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Author: Cynthia Charleen
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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