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The FCO Coastguard Icebuildup Metaphor
The document discusses how possessions accumulate over time like ice builds up on ships, weighing them down. It uses the metaphor of a home being like a ship to represent how excess stuff builds up in homes relentlessly through gifts, sales, etc. It encourages reducing clutter by giving items away through sharing communities to travel lightly on your "ship" through life.
The FCO Coastguard Icebuildup Metaphor
- 1. Our Home IsOur Ship! March 22, 2009 Copyleft Eric Snyder
- 2. These are picturestaken 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!
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- 4. Think of YOUR home as a ship… … a ship just like the coastguard icebreaker shown here... … a vessel on which you make YOUR life journey.
- 5. Just like icebuilding up on a ship, "stuff" builds up in our ship... our home!
- 6. Wave after waveafter wave... it keeps coming. More stuff... building up on our ships!
- 7. Christmas gifts... ahuge wave of "stuff" coming on to our ships. More load... 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... addedburden, load, clutter... non-stop it keeps coming!
- 10. Finally... enough isenough! Enough is TOO MUCH!
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- 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 throughtime 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 ftof 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 Monitor the non-stop 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 discards. Travel lightly… Full Circle …
- 19. "Too Much Stuff"- A one minute video
- 20. Mission : Actively promote sustainable economies; values of conservation and simplicity through local sharing communities. FullCircles.org 2009 Contact: [email_address]