SHIFTHEADS: I Got Rid of Everything. Then I Did It Again

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 16, 2026 · 8m

Too much stuff is a cycle, and the embarrassing part is how fast it closes. Five truckloads to the dump. An online auction. Everything gone. Moved from Calgary to Ottawa with a bed, some clothes, and a computer. Two years later in a two-bedroom apartment: too much stuff again. Now in a 139-year-old house in Merrickville with no storage because people in 1886 did not own 300,000 things.

What does it feel like to open a cupboard during a move and actually look at what is in there? Not the big stuff. The kitchen drawer. The containers without lids. The pan that still looks fine inside but has…