When I was 30 I moved from New Jersey to San Francisco. I sold all my belongings except that which could fit in 7 XEROX boxes. After 5 years I just about got everything back in one way or another. Then I was moved to Georgia by my company and went from one bedroom apartment to a 3 bedroom small house. I never purchased a record again but made up for it in CDs. Didn't quite get into VHS but my DVD collection is in the thousands, Blue-ray about 500. I try to give away my computers and electronics to friends and family as soon as I get myself that new version but I still have 5 working computers in my house, 5 ebook readers when all I use is my iPad3 and more than anything I have more cloths than I will ever need. This spring I will scale down in all things. I have been reading about the Tiny House movement and though I'm not leaving my small house (1100sf) I do have to declutter. I hope 2014 is my year.
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