I don’t watch reality television much, but I surfed by this show yesterday – a repeat of HGTV’s Selling Spelling Manor.
Wow. Aaron Spelling’s monster mansion – Spelling Manor – has been sold by his widow and she’s moving to a Century City condo and getting rid of an amazing amount of stuff. Anyone downsizing or who has downsized can find something with which to identify here.
Admittedly, there’s much to be said that all of this is the Anti-Simplicity lifestyle. True, so true.
However, this woman has undertaken a major life change and she’s gone through all those same pangs other simplifiers have: letting go of the vase that has memories but needs to be tossed; boxing stuff for donation; giving away things that you’ve discovered in the attic stash to someone who’ll love them.
Look, this country is in a depression and we all know it even if so many are too afraid to use the word. Is it the Greater Depression? I don’t think we know yet.
However, when so many are having to scale back and scale down, maybe knowing that Aaron Spelling’s widow Candy has vacated Spelling Manor to live in a condo the size of her former attic may help them feel they are not alone.
Just don’t ask about the slabs of pink Italian onyx going into the kitchen or the private swimming pool being built on the 42nd floor.
Happy week, Dear Reader!
