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« on: May 22, 2024, 06:59:20 AM »
When my mother passed away we cleaned out her house and it was amazing what she kept. Old calendars from 20 years ago, phone books, teaching materials from when she was a special ed teacher many years ago, all kinds of other stuff. Like an encyclopedia set from the 1970s. Small jars of something that went solid. Things full of memories, I'm sure. Kind of sad.
That made me much more picky when we made our last move. What to save, what to donate, what to trash. We had our regular house, a vacation house (we got the vacation house fully furnished!), and a storage unit all to be compressed into one smaller house. We set a limit of one moving truck for all our stuff including furniture. Everything else OUT. A couple of trucks of donations, a couple dumpsters of "who would want this?" Actually felt pretty good to get rid of all that stuff. Even after the move I'm ruthless in discarding old "treasures". Like that chunk of wire that might be useful some day. That hammer with a chipped handle. A box of rocks that are kind of pretty. Still slowly thinning the bins I couldn't decide on before the move.