Finding new homes for your stuff is the challenge. Some will have you believe that the hardest part of parting with your belongings is choosing which items must go. (There are Web sites, such as, that will buy your ex’s leavings, ranging from engagement rings to “Rick and Morty” socks.) I wish I could have added my boyfriend’s too large Le Corbusier lounger. A fraction of what was in that jumble: seven antique glass cake stands that belonged to my mother a dormitory’s worth of new sheet sets and blankets for a bed size that is not mine a set of Lenox china that my grandmother gave to my mother, who gave it to me, and was never used clothes galore a Viking stove grate that arrived cracked, and which I saved because I planned to weld it into a sculpture someday, after I learned how to weld several rolls of Trump toilet paper that I wrongly thought were amusing a few years ago. I gathered my unwanteds and piled them in the living room. In my apartment, it’s got so cluttered that sometimes, when I leave-usually to acquire more stuff-it crosses my mind that I should leave a “Dear Burglar” note, urging the intruder to help herself.Ī few months ago, I decided to deaccession an assortment of my things by whatever means feasible: selling, donating, recycling, giving them away, losing them on the subway, or reserving a spot for them on the next Mars Explorer. The son of a friend, when offered his pick of items from his grandfather’s estate-an antique clock? an Emmy?-took a toilet plunger. What to do with this First World surplus? Your children don’t want it. They have to dust it.” A survey conducted by the storage marketplace Neighbor found that quasi-house arrest has made seventy-eight per cent of respondents realize that they have more possessions than they need. “People are stuck in their houses and sick of their stuff,” Randy Sabin, who runs estate and Internet sales, told me over the phone from Morris, Connecticut. Reps for Oz did not respond to request for comment from The Post.Lately, I, a maximalist, have been yearning to be a minimalist. The poop tweets are another distraction for Oz’s campaign, which has faced relentless mockery over a video he put out documenting the high cost of ingredients for Crudité. Oz was roasted online after old tweets discussing poop came into light. “Gotta make a new website so your poop tweets don’t forward to your campaign site,” observed CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski. We’re tired of being number 2,” said one particularly punny twitter user. Thank you doctor, for trying to fix things from the bottom up. If you’re running, you have to get regular, even soft voters to support with every fiber they have. “Always good to have a solid movement politically. The tweets came in for a cascade of mockery from the online peanut gallery. Still elsewhere he discussed whether healthy poop should sink or float. “There are actually four techniques,” he told them. A March 2018 tweet showed video of Oz polling his studio audience about their “wipe type.” Oz’s Twitter account - which today focuses more on policy and why he’s a better candidate than Democratic rival John Fetterman - once talked at length about more fecal matters. Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms The biggest winners of the midterms: cynics who don’t expect better governance Trump voters are ‘done’ with ex-president after ‘red ripple’ in midterms Ex-Bridgewater CEO David McCormick reveals ‘battle plan to renew America’
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