I kept an eye on the new writing prompts that we shipped last week. I was curious to see if people like them or not. Also, some of these are just a little bit unorthodox and may not be to the everyone’s liking.

So far:

Best writing prompt:

What’s a thing you were completely obsessed with as a kid?

Worst new writing prompt:

What’s the most interesting local custom you’ve encountered?

And the first unusual one is today’s prompt:

What are the biggest benefits of minimalist living?

I’ll have to post a true answer to this one but so far, the origins of it have only been hinted on my blog. Books create clutter. I have many. They take up living space. It’s kipple. As Philip K. Dick says:

Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself.

So my wife discovered Marie Kondo and thanks to her book, I was able to get rid of half of my clothes and a sizable portion of the books. But we are losing this battle.

Today’s writing prompt is invited by our family’s battle with books, clothes, fitness devices, and toys nobody plays with. Old Apple devices and their fancy boxes. Chargers. Cables.