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I made a tough decision today, nothing big in the larger scheme of things but a decision to give away, at the town dump item exchange, a beloved very big, very heavy (impossible to move) cactus plant. My first step was to wheel it out onto the deck, water it well, and determine that the pricey ceramic pot will go with it. I've had this plant for 17 years. It doesn't do really well in the location I have it, and there's no other place to put it. I will miss the blooming, but not having to pick up all the blossoms when they drop.
so...I'm getting rid of everything I cannot lift or move on my own without help. When the plant goes, I'll have just a few heavy items of furniture I'm unable to move. The strange thing is that when I struggle about getting rid of something, I never miss it afterward. I don't even think about it. I worry that this is a mindset of (my) aging. I remember when my mother started to give some things away. It was like she was preparing for something.
I made a tough decision today, nothing big in the larger scheme of things but a decision to give away, at the town dump item exchange, a beloved very big, very heavy (impossible to move) cactus plant. My first step was to wheel it out onto the deck, water it well, and determine that the pricey ceramic pot will go with it. I've had this plant for 17 years. It doesn't do really well in the location I have it, and there's no other place to put it. I will miss the blooming, but not having to pick up all the blossoms when they drop.
so...I'm getting rid of everything I cannot lift or move on my own without help. When the plant goes, I'll have just a few heavy items of furniture I'm unable to move. The strange thing is that when I struggle about getting rid of something, I never miss it afterward. I don't even think about it. I worry that this is a mindset of (my) aging. I remember when my mother started to give some things away. It was like she was preparing for something.
I made a tough decision today, nothing big in the larger scheme of things but a decision to give away, at the town dump item exchange, a beloved very big, very heavy (impossible to move) cactus plant. My first step was to wheel it out onto the deck, water it well, and determine that the pricey ceramic pot will go with it. I've had this plant for 17 years. It doesn't do really well in the location I have it, and there's no other place to put it. I will miss the blooming, but not having to pick up all the blossoms when they drop.
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I can relate- Ages ago, I got rid of an old jade tree. Got it at an auction and the woman who had it said it was about 25 yrs old. I kept it about 10 or so but, like you with the cactus, I moved and really had no window for it.
We're on the road. Before we left we needed to prep our condo for anti-termite fumigation. Including moving our 20-ish year old jade plant into the common area.
It wasn't more than a half hour before one of the neighbors nicked it (not realizing why we'd put it there).
Ah, well. The neighbor can have many more years to enjoy it. We'll use that space on our 'porch' to grow a couple of tomato plants next year.
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