All material things, whether homes, cars, garbage disposals, lamps, or shoes, eventually need to be repaired and/or (at some point in time) need to be replaced.
Sure, museums have specially-trained staff to help preserve documents, furnishings, and other artifacts, but those items are not USED, simply admired from a distance either behind glass or roped off with thick velvet cords and little signs saying "Do Not Touch."
But in our lives, we actually use our possessions, not admire them from a distance. So it's a good idea, then, to begin looking at your things as ultimately replaceable, and to decide whether or not some item, when its useful-to-you life is over, is actually worth replacing.
The great secret is that most of the things the average person owns are not worth replacing.
Possessions often hinder our living vibrantly and fully, simply because there are too many things around us that steal our time and attention away from doing what we most want to do with our lives. We slog through our days burdened by too much, and all of it in the process of either deteriorating through age and exposure to air, dust, bugs, humidity, etc., or through actual use.
When you come across the next breaking/broken item in your life, think about whether or not you really want to replace it. You just might surprise yourself and say, "No! Out it goes, and I don't want another one. I choose open space and a bright, clean, vibrant future!"
