Rejigger

We should not get rid of nor avoid getting all stuff.  Our practice of reducing and refusing an abundance of stuff is checked by our recognition that some stuff is important to us and those around us.  Stuff can damage our well-being.  And yet we can remain positively cautious about stuff, understanding the real value of material possessions.

To rejigger stuff so that its role in our lives is ordered appropriately is the third step in our self-aware response to being “stuck in stuff.”  It simply makes no sense to reduce and to refuse all stuff.  In addition to necessities - clothes, shelter, food, etc. - we are privileged to possess beautifully meaningful stuff.  Art, pillows, dog leashes, heirlooms, love letters, chairs, memory albums, and much more are examples of valuable stuff.  Our disciplines to reduce the amount of stuff we have and to refuse an abundance of more stuff puts us in a situation where we can rightly appreciate and order the stuff we keep and acquire.  We can put stuff in its rightful place in our lives.

And so the third of three responses advocated by StuckInStuff.com to our over abundance is to rejigger our stuff in order to allow stuff to serve greater purposes than possession alone.