A few days ago My husband and I watched "The Book of Eli." In this movie, the world is a totally different place that where we live today. The ozone layer is so thin that the sun will blind you if you are not wearing sunglasses, there is little to no water, people have very little, and education is not a priority. The Bible and religion is lost.
One of the quotes from the movie got me thinking. Well, actually, many things made me think about my spiritual life, but this one in particular made me think about my physical life and the things I have or think I need.
A young girl was asking Eli what it was like before and he replied, "We threw away things that people kill each other over now."
It made me think about all the excess in my life. What do I really need, what is just junk, wasting space, cluttering up my house/mind/soul?
One of the biggest recurring arguments that Hubby and I get into is over clutter and cleaning up. I don't like clutter, he doesn't seem to see it.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided that we do have too much stuff. Less stuff = less clutter = less arguing for Hubby and I = even happier Hubby and I. Sounds logical, right?
So I am slowly going through the house and looking at everything we own and asking myself "Do I really need it? When is the last time I used it? Do I have a plan to use it in the near future? Does it work? Do I have space for it" All excess is being dealt with (donated/given away/recycled/ etc.).
We've taken bags of clothes to the Salvation Army, a box of "decorative knick-knacks/junk" to a friend who was having a charity garage sale, and even emptied our pantry (are we REALLY ever going to eat this? If not, it went to our church for the food pantry).
Ironically, one of the biggest excesses we have is...MOVIES! We have an entire bookshelf filled with DVD's plus the two DVD cabinets that are on our entertainment center! Now, most of these movies were bought, and watched, by the Hubster himself so I don't want to just go in and assume that he doesn't watch a movie enough to warrant keeping it...so I'm attempting to get Hubby to discern that for himself. It's slow going! HAHA I love him! :)
The movies that I have chosen to keep are: The Princess Bride (my all time favorite movie), Chronicles of Narnia, Chicago, all of the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Twilight series, and of course my Audry Hepburn movies for a total of about 20 movies. Yes, I know.... I don't NEED movies for my survival, but we aren't going that far (yet).
So my question of the day is...What are your favorite movies that you couldn't part with? If movies aren't your thing, then what TV shows, books, or whatever?
3 comments:
"A Star Is Born" (Judy Garland version), "Affair to Remember," "Dave" and "The Fatal Glass of Beer"
Harry Potter is definitely our keepers too. ...and the goonies :)
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So interesting! Shannon just watched that movie recently. It's true that most of us have WAY more than we need.
When we moved here, we went through all our movies. Some of the ones we kept are your favorites too. Either that or we have the "book version"... or both. The Office isn't a "movie" but because we don't get American t.v., we have all the seasons. We also have a lot of Christmas movies. After spending our first Christmas here in Prague I realized how much I missed Christmas movies on t.v. - so this past Christmas I asked for them as gifts. :)
p.s. I like your new blog layout!
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