hi everyone!
I have been really trying to see what is current in our lives. I have also been looking at what is hard for each member of our family has difficulty letting go of things.
dd19 nothing.. she easily gets rid of things she doesn't use anymore. (doesn't mean her room is clean
but she constantly goes through the things and gets rid of them, usually to dd13)
dd13 has a really hard time with everything, especially things from her childhood but we are seeing her starting to let go and that is great.
dh: watches, anything electronic or car anything
me: memory of kids stuff but getting better. one thing that suprised me: dd19 has traveled all over the world except for asia, and has brought home teeshirts, stuffed animals, money from those countries. I find it hard to get rid of a peice of the world. I have things from korea (my dmom), austalia, new zealand, europe everywhere, south america. Also I love old girl scout things (what is that about), I need to get rid of old books that were dd19 and mine (scout). I have multi... don't ask. I even have the first girl scout book.
Also I have the empty plastic bins from donating all that stuff. I have lots in a closet and I will get rid of them slowly but surely as dh has a hard time too letting go of something "we might need".
Pluses we are celebrating because of this: 1.we are now displaying the things we have from family, in the right amount.
instead of burying them somewhere because there was too much.
2. we now have the rule: you buy something you have to get rid of something.. not dd19 as she already does that My first thing to work on next week to start paring down for dgirls... They have multi boxes of keepsakes that I have kept. most is useless, and I don't want them to have to burden themselves with STUFF I deemed keepsake. you can't have 6 large boxes of childhood each. It's not fair to them.
So today: is donation day Yeah. I will make one more trek around the house to find the clutter... donation is done plus donation for library done.. donated 30 books, tossed some in recycling.