Community Chat

[stevieb]

I'm all for simplifying and streamlining and am working on it, so add me to the list... But I could never, ever get by with just two handbags...

 

[Snowpuppy]

She never mentioned who paid for her 5,000 sq ft house and her rolling racks of endless stuff that made her happy?

[sidsmom]

She sounds very, very happy!

http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/April-2017/This-Designer-Downsized-for-Life-and-Has-Neve...

[sidsmom]

I’m middle of moving to a smaller size apartment.

No life change forcing me to move other than...just new carpet. 🙃

Whaa?

The only way I could get new carpet in my current apartment was

if I would move everything out, they replace & I would move everything

back in. My SO & friends said, ‘Just MOVE!’

Alot of my things had lots of memories, like the lady in the OP.

I’ve been slowly paring down...feels good...but I was still sad about

losing my bedroom furniture, which had a lot of sentimental value. 

Just a couple days ago, I ‘released’ that feeling & it’s so liberating!

I’ll be able to do cartwheels in my closet & bedroom/living room

of my smaller apartment, without all the ‘stuff.’

I have several online people I follow on social media who lost

everything in the California fires.  In the effort to make Life Half Full,

they thought of it as a chance to begin with a clean slate..

hit the reset button.

So when I’m paring down & packing boxes, I hold up a pair of

Calvin Klein Jeans, circa 1979 and 20lbs ago & I think

‘why do I keep these??’  They could be taken from me right now,

without choice...and with that,  I put them in the donate bag.

They’ll make someone else very happy. 

I remember that thought & good feeling...and repeat it over & over.

[catwhisperer]

@sidsmom ...good luck and congratulations on your new move and downsizing. I am a baby boomer, raised in the 50's/60's. Lots of big furniture.

Fast forward to ten years ago. I have no furniture in my bedroom other than my twin bed and a small desk that I use for my makeup table/storage. No dressers. I use hanging shelves in the closet and neatly fold all my clothes to fit on the shelves. Works great and stress free for me.

[LilacTree]

Believe it or not, I have folders from 2015 of paid bills.  I have to ask one of my girls to bring them to a paper shredder place . . . No way my little shredder (which I bought to shred bills) could ever handle this mess!

From there it just gets worse.

[sidsmom]

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@LilacTree wrote:

Believe it or not, I have folders from 2015 of paid bills.  I have to ask one of my girls to bring them to a paper shredder place . . . No way my little shredder (which I bought to shred bills) could ever handle this mess!

From there it just gets worse.

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@LilacTree 

Every little bit is a move in the right direction!

[catwhisperer]

@LilacTree ...girl, you need to get rid of that mess, Seriously!

[viva923]

dh and I dumped much of our extra stuff in march we did some serious spring cleaning. Each day now, i check to see if i can dump any more of the extra stuff we own.

[LilacTree]

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@catwhisperer wrote:

@LilacTree ...girl, you need to get rid of that mess, Seriously!

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@catwhisperer 

Ha h ha . . . Yes, Cat, I KNOW !!!