A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in Sammi’s Comment Section.
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Today I’ll downsize.
With a large trash bag at my disposal I dive into the sea of clutter—useless junk—only to rediscover heirlooms—handwritten notes, children’s drawings, a sixty-year-old dreidel—keepsake after keepsake. A sea of treasures and memories. I cannot part with them.
I’ll downsize tomorrow.
Maybe.
In case you wonder what a 60 year old dreidel looks like – It’s a piece of plastic that might have set the synagogue back less than a cent a piece to give each child at the Hanukkah party. To me a priceless keepsake.
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
Nice take. We all do that
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Dear Indira,
Those momentos get me every time. Thank you. 😀
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I am still keeping my daughter’s battered doll.
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I imagine the majority of us have this same issue. It’s hard sometimes. Good little story.
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Dear Jan,
In light of your recent desk cleaning, I know you know what I’m talking about. 😉 Thanks, m’luv.
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Take photos then chuck it all in the bin, m’lady, it just takes up space!
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So easy to say, not so easy to do. 😉 Thank you.
Shalom and stay well,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Isn’t it funny how junk so easily becomes a keepsake when it’s time to clear space?
Shalom and lotsa bits o’ love,
Dale
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Dear Dale,
True that. It’s why it takes me forever and a day to clean one closet. Or one drawer…or one box…oy.
Shalom and lotsa precious hugs,
Rochelle
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Preaching to the choir…😘
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🤣🤪🤣😘
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😜😂😉😘
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My mom had to move back in December/January, and she’d been “downsizing” since forever. I think getting rid of all our old toys took her a couple weeks of putting it off.
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It’s always tough to decide what stays and what goes, isn’t it?
Shalom H.R.R. – Stay well,
Rochelle
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I regularly remove everything from my junk cupboard with the intention of scaling down the contents, then put it all back again!
I’m missing from Fri Fic this month because once again I’m taking part in the A-Z Challenge – we get only Sundays off for good behaviour!. I’ll be back!
My Keepsake!
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Well done.
SHalom,
Ronda
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Yeah, if you still have room for today’s stuff, why downsize yesterday’s? 😉 Especially not the sentimental ones!
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And that’s the kind of thinking that keeps this room clutter-ful. 😉 But it’s my clutter and I like it. One of our friends visited once and stood in my office, shook his head and said, “I’d hate to be inside your head.” 😀 I took it as a compliment.
Thanks for coming by.
Shalom and stay well, my friend.
Rochelle
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“It’s my clutter and I’ll hoard if I like to, hoard if I like to, hoard if I like to …” 😉 (sing to “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I like to”) – basically, if your head likes your space to be crowded, then why not let both of them be? 😉
Na’ama
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Everyones individual clutter is. treasure in some way, which is why, many times, its never thrown out. Though sometimes we just can’t decide why it’s a treasure at all…:)
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Dear George,
Those treasures do build up for certain. Thank you for sorting through the clutter to comment. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Querida Rochelle,
I think we all of those items that we really don’t need but hate to part with them.
The memories these items bring back are happy one when we were innocent and
didn’t know about the Big Foot out there.
I have items I want to give to my children. They look at me and have the teen look of
“Oh, no’ LOLOL
Abrazos,
Isadora 😎
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