The document discusses how possessions accumulate in homes over time like ice builds up on ships, making the home feel cluttered and weighed down. It encourages the reader to think of their home as a ship carrying them through life and to regularly declutter by giving unwanted items to others through programs like Full Circles in order to travel lightly and prevent their "ship" from being sunk by excess stuff.

1. Our Home Is Our Ship! December 26, 2007

2. These are pictures taken from the Coast Guard ship Sir William Alexander during the search for “El Loda Cash”, a fishing boat which sank in the Bay of Fundy a few years ago. Heavy ice buildup probably sank El Loda. Watching the ice build up on Sir William Alexander, you can see why. A tragic event... This could happen to YOUR home? Watch, and see how!

4. Think of YOUR home as a ship… … a ship just like the coastguard icebreaker here … a vessel on which you make YOUR life journey.

5. Just like ice building up on a ship, "stuff" builds up in our ship... our home!

6. Wave after wave after wave... it comes. More stuff... building up on our ships!

7. Christmas gifts... a huge wave of "stuff" coming on to our ships. More load... more heavy buildup.

8. Boxing Day sales. Another wave of "stuff"... more load. It just keeps coming... wave after wave after wave... relentlessly...

9. Building, building... added burden, load, clutter... non-stop it comes

10. Finally... enough is enough! Enough is TOO MUCH!

11. Stop!!!

12. Time for action!!

13. Chip it away! Get rid of it! Sell it... give it away... Freecycle it...

14. Your home is YOUR ship… … a ship just like that coastguard icebreaker … The vessel on which you make YOUR life journey.

15. You travel through time on YOUR ship… … YOUR journey ... YOUR life ... YOUR family’s life ... YOUR trip!

16. YOUR “ship” gets weighed down with “ice” on your journey. This next slide shows a junk room in a typical young couple’s house. Out of sight, building up with “ice”.

17. 300 sq ft of unwanted, surplus stuff... Household “ice”... junk... The junk gets this large room. The two boys get the smallest bedroom. Something's drastically wrong with this picture!

18. Get the Full Circles habit Watch for continuous build up on YOUR ship! Chip off the surplus “stuff”– toys, clothes, books, all that other “stuff”. Give it away on Full Circles . Get it out! Don’t let continuously accumulating household “ice” sink your ship. Remember, there are always many folks in your circles – friends, families, neighbours, co-workers – at different stages of their lives who would actually want , welcome , use, and value your unwanted stuff. Travel lightly… Full Circle …

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