Everything in excess

Today I got a package in the mail. I was expecting a package, but this box was huge. When I saw it, I thought maybe my UPS man dropped it at the wrong house. I checked the address and indeed it was my package. But it was much bigger than I expected. Hmmm something wasn't right.

See the sharpie? It's for size reference...

So I open the package and it's full of packing paper.

Okay, hmmm another box.

After all that work I finally get to what I ordered. 3 bathroom items, a soap dish, soap dispenser and a toothbrush holder. Do you see all the boxes, packing paper, foam, and packing bubble stuff behind the 3 things I ordered?? Crazy. The store shall remain nameless, LOL but I was pretty surprised. I might email them this picture, just so they can see how overboard they went with packing this package.

Excess, overabundance, overkill, overabundance, surplus. I've always thought I was pretty good at keeping our house semi-free of unnecessary stuff. Now that I've been packing up this little house, I think I was wrong. How is it that I'm able to pile up giant trash bags of clothes, books, and other miscellaneous items for the Salvation Army every few weeks? You'd think that at the rate I'm cleaning out stuff that we'd be naked, hungry or bored. But we aren't any of those things. There's plenty of clothes, toys and books around this house and as the weeks go by, I'm finding more to get rid of. It feels good to declutter. It really makes me think about how much stuff we really need, and how much is just excess...