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一屋不扫 何以扫天下？

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Seeking The Golden Key to 断舍离

-A drama queen’s  daily routine

  It’s a bright shining day,  up to 42 degree F,  I can’t waited that I am going to wear my favorite ，lighter weighted ,and red coat instead my winter down coat.  Just like many others,  enjoy little bits of warm day .

      Summer light saving is ready started without event since I have my iPhone,  not as past years that I have always been late or early to work.

    I was very carefully removed my leather gloves and keys from my down coat , with my purse and working beg, I went down stairs, to able put my red coat on, l put everything down on the floor, I even smiled myself into the mirror.  Here goes a fresh new me, I opened the door and closed the door behind me.  As I was closing the door, heard the locking sound behind me, all the sudden, there’s bad feeling falling down onto my head:

“Where’s my key？”there’s a panic attack, I padded my pocket , and then my purse , I even shaken my purse. my first thought is that I forgot my keys on the floor when I was trying to put my jacket on.

        I  took the hidden manganic key box out, It was empty. 

“Maybe my daughter talked it out this summer when she was on home on her summer vacation? “

    I looked the drawers carefully, and then decided to call my daughter who is in London, at meanwhile, who was taking a nap. 

  She wasn’t sure:

“Maybe the button drawer, somewhere?”

“You did not use it, don’t you?”

“No .”

    I felt really bad by interrupting her napping,  she was so kind even helped me located me a unlocking service locally.

    First, I checked the storage drawer by empty them,  surprisingly,  the most stuff In them all needs to be thrown away. 

    Second, I digging into my memory, when was the last time I saw and used it.  And then I recalled that the key I put under the Valentine’s Day heart shaped card, my daughter gave to me when she was second grader,  on the table beside my garage entrance door . But, that table was given away last summer when my daughter helps me cleaning my house.

    “It must be on the floor, or in those clusters of materials which I moved away from top of that table.

    I started to throw things into trash bag. And at same times complaining that the way Americans build up the door is so wrong, not like in China, in my old apartment, how many times I have to climb the window above my apartment’s door?  That is the truly meaning of close a door and opening a window.

    As times passed by, I called the unlock service,  they said some body will be here in 30-45 minuets. Will charge $89.99.

  I wasn’t going give up,  just as I remove some things from the storage table, the extra house keys dropped on the floor.

    Right away,  I canceled the unlock service, for awhile I thought that my phone will never get through.  But, at same-times, I didn’t see that my car keys is on the floor where it supposed to be,  and not any where, I used the same strategy to searching the inside,  finally,  I dumped everything from my purse checked again, the keys were in that pocket that I didn’t used to keep my keys but at times, I do put any things when they’re fit.

  I was ready one hour late for work, I rashly driving my car to work,  just out of my driveway,  turns to left, here comes a SUV, I tried to stop my car ,but mistakenly, I pushed my gas paddle.....

  之所以用英文写，是因为觉得好像是写的另外一个人的故事。自己也可以跟着别人一起看个笑话。

    我们读书书会三月十八号二零一八年，刚讨完这本书《断舍离》。女儿也向我强烈推荐了这本书。

  象我们这些九十年代初来美国创业的中国移民，家里是从一穷二白的基础上建立起来的，满屋子的杂物，承载着我们艰苦创业的经历和感情。我们来自四壁徙空之家，我们从小就被教育：要勤简持家，节约闹革命。而《断舍离》也是随着人类社会财富的极大丰富，应运而生的家庭物质管理学。这在中国旧社会也是富贵人家掌家主妇才需要学习的管家之术。经过文化大革命，可以说，绝大多数女性，除了有天赋的，都失去了这项技能。

    我正在努力的断了来源，挺好的，己经好几次拿着打折卷去购物，车开到半路又调转回头。舍了很多用不着的东西，有的标鉴还没取下来的便宜货。离的还远远不够，诱惑呵！