Here are some of my silly hoarding habits that I am trying to break:

1. Two large “Autumn Lodge” Yankee candles that I bought because the scent was discontinued and I loved it so much. I bought them probably 2 years ago and haven’t burned them. So it’s like I have a big jar of stuff to smell once in a while, but what purpose does that serve?

I may wait till winter to burn them, because it -is- a winter scent. But there’s really no reason for me to just hold onto the jar and smell it once every couple months.

2. Secret Spell Barbies.
These barbies came out in I think 2002-2003-ish around the Harry Potter craze when it first got, well..crazy. They were basically witch barbies, 3 of them, and they had their own spellbook etc. However they were removed from the shelves by VERY angry parents because it was said they were demonic. I happen to have all 3 in mint condition still in the boxes. I still have trouble convincing myself that I don’t need them, because they are pretty cool. This one may take some time.

3. More books that I haven’t read than books that I have.
I made a decision to stop buying books until I’ve read all the ones I have (unless it’s on a particular topic I can’t research elsewhere). I’ve just got too many that have been sitting around collecting dust. Fortunately I’ve purged maybe 4/5’s of my book collection.

4. Rocks. Rocks were a major obsession of mine when I worked at the Rock and Gem shop back in 2001/2002. So much that I literally have mounds of rocks and crystals. I’m pretty attached to them, and will probably always have a lot of them. But the collection does need to be weeded out because really all they do is sit there and take up surface space. Even when I get my own house, spreading out all of these rocks would still take up too much surface space and disrupt the energy too much.

5. Candles. I have a lot of candles, maybe drawer full. I don’t actually buy new candles, I just don’t burn them that much. Tealights seem to be easier and more efficient to use, so I generally stick to those. But I should start burning candles I already have access to.

6. Magazines/Catalogs. I’ve been doing great with this one, but I still have more magazines to go through. I was saving a pile of them because they had articles I wanted to scan, but then other things would interrupt and they’d start piling up.

I think that’s pretty much it. Detachment from material possessions is a pretty intense thing, and I’m glad I can acknowledge where problems lie so I can work towards getting them to a manageable level. Plus having surface space makes breathing so much nice.

Or something along those lines.

That’s what some jackass from Cities of M’dhoria is now calling my MUD. And when Sativa and Graven find out, they are apparently going to sue us!

We’ll just ignore the fact that Advent has been up since 2001.

We’ll ignore the fact that Graven, Sativa, Wyare, and Delshara have all done work on Advent, long before I ever stepped foot on CoM, which was only for what 6 months last year? In fact, Sativa and Wyare -gave- me their prog code, to which I give them full credit for in help credits. And that we are technically sister MUDs.

We’ll ignore the fact that CoM is hosted on the adventmud.org servers, and that I regularly maintain any server issues and backups so they don’t lose any information.

We’ll ignore the fact that I still keep in touch with a lot of the staff from CoM.

We’ll ignore the fact that Advent is completely different from CoM, different races, different setting, no classes, no alignments, no levels

I emailed it to Sativa because it amused me, it’ll probably amuse him too.