Why do we hoard stuff until long long after the “sell by” date or their expiration dates?  I cleaned out the refrigerator today,  and decided to check the dates on every bottle and packet.  Vitamins expired 2009, grated cheese never opened and lost at the back of a shelf dated April 2010,  almost 8 months ago.  The packet looked new, looked good, looked ready to use.  But absolutely not good for consumption.  The vitamins, some bottles unopened because I took the two for one bargain and never got around to using all of them.  Taking up space in the refrigerator, taking up space in my life, …like so many things, objects, people, thoughts,taking up space, but totally useless to me.  They are all past their “sell by” date.

 But it takes time and energy to go through and sort and check and purge oneself of both the mental and physcial stuff that accumulates and sits around “looking good” but are past their expiration date.  Clothes that still look good but not on me…too big, too small…books that I’ve read and won’t ever look at again…papers that were started and not finished, somewhere in that permanent draft stage…but being held on to way way past their “sell by” date.  

Thoughts in my mind that need to be purged….old, outdated, expired thoughts that don’t help in the least.

 Take the time…clean out that refrigerator, and your closet, and your bookshelf and most of all, your mind…clear it of everything that is now useless to you because it is past it’s “sell by” date…it’s expired! Time for more weeding…the internal kind.