Watch!

Nothing really to “watch” here, this is about an actual watch.

For the last 10 or years (or more) I’ve always been a watch junkie. Always had it on at work, sometimes wore it in the shower, wore it no matter the temperature even when I was working in a warehouse during the hot and humid Ohio summers.

And then…

I took it off.

When I started getting more hard core in my decluttering and minimalistic tendencies I realized I didn’t need to wear a watch. I always have my mobile phone with me and it obviously has a clock so I’m all set. The first day it was just on a lark wondering if it’d feel weird to go watchless. Then the next day I purposely did it again. Now, about two weeks later, I don’t miss it at all!

It wasn’t an expensive watch, it was given to me, and it’s still sitting on my dresser (the only thing on the dresser by the way.) But I can’t imagine when I’ll be putting it on again.

UPDATE:  April 27, 2010

3 months later I still don’t wear a watch. I’ve discovered a nice benefit: the hours seem to go by faster, this means I must have been looking at my watch a lot more often than I thought I was. I work a second job at a friend’s business a couple days a week and while I don’t mind the work I would occasionally look down at the watch and think “Oh man, 3 more hours.” It wasn’t that I wanted to get out of there, it just seemed like the hours were dragging by.  Now that I don’t wear a watch and have to purposely go find the time somewhere I just don’t do it. These days, by the time my eyes glance at a clock usually a whole hour has gone by. It’s really nice!  I’ve worn the watch once in the last 3 months and it no longer clutters the top of my dresser…it’s sitting in a drawer.