ShannonFeb 20
David Njoku

New parent classes go on about breastfeeding and growth. All important stuff. But there's one huge parenting thing that they all leave out:

Throwing stuff away.

Children generate and accumulate so much crap. So, so much.

And as parents we're wracked with such guilt throwing any of it away - whether it's a finger drawing from nursery or a crappy Happy Meal toy.

Teach us to throw stuff away and you'll change our lives.

#parenting

Feb 20 at 8:35pmWeb
Show threadWiredfireFeb 20

@davidnjoku A little morbid but after clearing out Dad’s house I take a view that I don’t want my youngling to have to pick through hordes of crap when I have shuffled off this mortal coil. Really helped me declutter and assess what stuff I was holding onto I *really* actually want and need.

Which is all good and fine until said youngling does a thing and gives it to me and it goes right in the “treasure forever” area 😅😅

Show threadKate BowlesFeb 20
@wiredfire @davidnjoku This is the essence of Swedish death cleaning: the time you give back to future others by doing your own sorting out now. It’s weirdly refreshing. After the last youngling took off we cracked on with it and it’s the theme of this year. You’re so right, parenting is a whole extra sediment layer of sentimental hoarding.
Show thread施必勝🌐☸️Feb 20
@kate @wiredfire @davidnjoku I have to deal with a wife who has horror vacui but if I put it that way, I might have a chance 😂
Show threadHo Ho Ho Like The SlurFeb 20
@davidnjoku in the time my brothers wasted searching for items my parents threw away and lied to them about, they could have taken up a team sport
Show threadStevanFeb 20
@davidnjoku But there's a reason, and an entire proverb to warn against this - don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 😉
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️Feb 21

@davidnjoku @User47 When my grandmother passed away in 2000, I inherited a tempera painted newspaper pumpkin from her that I had made in kindergarten. I still have it. I figure it's about 60 years old now. It lives in the plastic produce bag my grandmother kept it in. She put it on a shelf in her bay window every Halloween for 35 years.

Throw that shit out.