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Into the Dumpster It Goes!
The grotesque late-stage capitalist endorphin rush of literally THROWING things away
For the second time in as many months, I called a dumpster rental service and had them deliver a full-sized trailer to my new home.
Since we cut our square footage in half moving from Texas to California — 100% worth it, believe me — we have a lot of stuff to throw away.
And I’m throwing it away. With a clang, with a crash, with a thundering boom, I am slinging and flinging my discards into this dumpster.
It feels so good.
If you have to clean out a room, an attic, a home, a marriage, a career, whatever, I highly recommend renting a haul-away dumpster and literally throwing things into it.
The sound of a badly dented cooking pot lid hitting the back wall of a steel dumpster at full Frisbee speed is one of the most satisfying things you can imagine.
We vacated our old home so quickly that we didn’t have time to sort through our things. We had it all packed up in a couple of days by movers. This means that the unpacking process is long, tedious, and filled with constant decision-making about what to keep and what to throw away. We have half the square footage now; half of our stuff needs to go.
