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Originally Posted by rebarnmom
Right now, I can't get enough "stuff" out of my home fast enough. I think I'm becoming a moderate minimalist, maybe because I've had most of my "stuff" in boxes for the last eight years. I've been selling things right and left, part of which is financially motivated. I haven't started selling or donating my books yet, but they are next. I'm sure I'll be keeping a select few for sentimental reasons or practical reasons, but if they are on my Reader, out they will go. I may have some remorse, but hard to say right now. I'll have the most remorse if we have to leave the barn  , I am more sentimentally attached to my home, but if we have to leave, I don't want to be moving boxes and boxes of books. I still LOVE the idea of having all of my library with me all the time, wherever I go! |
I'm the same way except I'm doing so because I want to be more mobile; literally since I'm going to move into a travel trailer. It is hard to give up stuff one has had for years. I used to collect stuff animals; full sized ones, not little beannie babies or their ilk. With the occasional exception of a few that were just too danged cute to pass up, each one was a memento of a place, person or event of significance in my life. The other day, I gave a neighbor a couple of bags of them for his kids so I could get the boxes they were stored in out of my way. I didn't even look in the bags first to see which ones I was giving away since I knew I would cry if I did.
Rather than go to the hassle to sell things I need to get rid of, I'm trying whenever possible to give them to friends and other people I know will get some use from them. When I replaced the computer chair my ample asset had grown too large for, I wanted to get rid of the old one right away. I stuck it out on the curb with a sign that said, "Free or best offer." It was gone within the hour. An old boss of mine got my 400 CD changer (now there was a monstrosity!). I'm dragging a couple of stuffed dragons to a friend in CA who collects dragon figurines the next time I drive out there. I already gave her husband the NiMH rechargeble batteries I had replaced with low loss Sanyo Eneloops and her a bunch of small, carved, wooden boxes I had bought to put small gifts into but still had a bunch of. She, in turn, shared them with her family and friends. I won't bore you with more.