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Ignoring
Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that
opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
yourself.
A few years ago, on this website, I linked to the article to
the left about
"Swedish
Death Cleaning, How to Declutter Your Home and Life",
something as an 82 year old widower I fight a battle with on
a continual basis. The buzzword discussed was “dostadning”
– a hybrid of the Swedish words “death” and “cleaning”.
Over
the years, I've seen a lot of self-help books, and I read a
few, getting all inspired for at least a day. I had a friend
who signed-up for a program on "How to become
financially successful", but when he started to get
past-due notices and collection calls from the company
selling the program, he realized that maybe it wasn't
working.
I've been parked in my motorhome in front
of my daughter's Minnesota lake cabin now for two years, my
daughter and her family seldom use the place so I'm
generally alone here and spend most of my time in the RV,
working on my website or watching television or movies (I
have 'way too many DVD movies, it got a little out of hand).
When my wife was alive, she died of cancer in
2019, we were on the road to somewhere all the time. But,
I've lost interest in heading out alone, travel just isn't
appealing to me anymore. The motorhome makes a great place
to live for a senior, and I enjoy that, satellite television
and radio, air conditioning, all the creature comforts. In
fact, I read recently where some cities are re-writing local
ordinances to allow residents to park an RV in the backyard
to provided housing and support for aging parents. A geat
idea, and the price is right.
I've thought about
hiring a cleaning lady, but I've been putting it off
because, well, maybe there is one more long road trip in my
future, and besides, I'd never let anyone in here unless I
spent about two days cleaning or organizing. The last thing
I'd want for for someone over to help me and then go home
and tell everybody what a slob I am. I'd like to keep that
fact a secret.
I wonder continually why I can't get
motivated to do some needed maintenance on the motorhome, I
should be lying underneath changing the oil, or washing and
waxing the beast, or at least drag out the vaccum cleaner or
scrubbing materials and get on with it. Then I think, well,
that's why God invented "tomorrow" and "next
week".
The other night, I happened on a
YouTube video where a man discussed "lonely senior
widower depression", the guy was talking about me.
 This
morning, I received an email that the subscription for my "Spot-X"
satellite communicator, that can save my hide if I'm in
trouble out in the wilderness, is coming due for another
annual payment of $200. I realized I haven't used it for two
years, and that is lot of money to waste. And, the annual
billing for the GPS monitor on the top of the motorhome, in
case someone steals it, will be for due for $150 bucks,
again, money out the window because I thought I'd get over
this and head out West or certainly I'd be heading to
Florida in the winter. Neither of those things happened.
So, facing reality, I got on the phone and
cancelled all of it.
Now, all inspired, it's
laundry today, there is a washer and dryer in the cabin, and
I can haul the dishes from the motorhome sink in there as
well and run the dishwasher.
After my nap.
Please
visit
my
travel blog to learn more about my life on the road,
traveling with my wife for about 10 years, a wonderful part
of my life..
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