I am getting ready to move again. Having been here almost two years I have accumulated stuff or kept stuff that I brought in my car from North Carolina. I wouldn’t actually call me a minimalist, but I do like things clean and neat. My sentimental side, I don’t know if it comes from nature or nurturing, wars with my neatnik side as I choose which things to keep and which to toss.
The original downsizing was simple. I gave everything to the kids. It was gone, but not gone! Then came getting rid of everything I had no attachment to which was pretty easy. Now for the harder stuff:
I understand some people keep things because of a “waste not want not” position, or because they might not be able to replace it in the future if they need it later on. I don’t waste water, or electricity, or food, or gas, but with all the thrift stores around I think my cast offs will not be wasted either. They will simply go to someone else.
And I trust in the universe to provide for me when I am in need as long as I live sensibly most of the time. It always has so far.
So….I get rid of extraneous belongings once again and, for those of you who are shopping freaks, it is almost the same feeling, but in reverse. I pour over racks of clothing, sort through closet shelves, dig through drawers and choose items – to get rid of instead of buy, but it is a very similar feeling to the hunter gatherer one that comes when shopping. I just gather it up and take it to somebody else’s little clutch of stuff.
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