After moving our lives to Berkeley last weekend, and then reading the insurance contract I signed with U-Haul where they disavow all responsibility for the stuff I haul in their trucks, I have a new question I ask myself when dealing with the things I own:<\/p>\n
*If this thing was completely destroyed in a fire, would I replace it immediately?*<\/p>\n
If the answer is no, then maybe I don’t need it at all. After all, no matter [how you got something](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/brain\/personal\/taking-what-youre-given), if you don’t need it then it’s just holding you back. Moving, even 40 miles, makes that very clear.<\/p>\n
Plus it’s better to do this sort of thinking before a catastrophe happens than [after](http:\/\/www.veen.com\/jeff\/archives\/000719.html).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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