This meme spoke to me when I saw it. I suppose it could apply to any age but perhaps more so as you get older.
I have been doing some decluttering of old files, death cleaning would be a good term. My problem is hanging on to memorabilia. For example, why do I need to save all my children's old report cards.
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Great sentence!!
Reminds you got get up and go make your dreams come true. 😏
And the non-dreams, as well. 🤷♂️ Great reminder. Thanks for sharin' that meme, Christine. 👏🏻
So true!
Such a great reminder. And it's very hard to get rid of stuff.
good quote. I think we need to treasure the time what is given to us!
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ן can perfectly understand you. De-cluttering is such a hard job! I get attached to things,and find it almost impossible to get rid of them. At a certain age it is a Must to downsize and eliminate stuff, and that's not easy.
I just burned some VERY old files two days ago. I have saved things like old report cards, etc., but when the kids move out (permanently), they will have some rubbermaid boxes to take with them! -Jenn
Last year I went through old memorabilia. I took a nice walk down memory lane along the way. I made each of the kids a box to take home with their stuff to do whatever they want with it, made myself a junk journal, and tossed the rest.
I know what you mean. I have too much here, that's for sure! Hugs, Valerie
I wonder how many people keep their kids report cards. My Mom kept my report cards and I kept all my kids report cards.
But these thing are important to you. Keep what matters :-D
It's hard to know what the next generation will find interesting.
Thanks Ananka I will be keeping some
Oh, we just don't do much of this in our family...=)
So interesting, so that's what that is.
Exactly!
After my BIL, then my sister a month later, then my brother 6 months later. I learned that a life box is what everyone needs. A box to give instructions to those that are cleaning out your house.
We save those for evidence. ;)
I get this. We all need to pare down our belongings.
Another good thought Nicole, so sorry.
Conserva lo que amas te amas y lo que te hace feliz. Te mando un beso
Mom kept those also, I now have them. My kids can burn them. I remember my mom going through the "get rid of stage of lire" only I think she was in her 50s then. She was giving me things to take to my house to clutter it up! lol....things that I might have given her, made for her or things I might just want. I remember asking her, "whats up, you know something we don't"? I am a bit behind on doing that, but I am working on it. SLOWLY. Difference is, mom did not have my body. Plus, as funny as it is to me now it was not funny to my mom, my reports mainly said things like, "Play talks to much in class" or "Pam needs to use her time wisely", or there were a couple of statements about me being the clown of the class....Yep, funny to read now, not so much when I got in trouble for it.
I totally get it - I can get rid of a lot of things but family writings, art, letters, photos , memorablia like that - I just can't! And my photo taking was so prolific from the time i had kids through to today - i have way too many photos whether digital or material...
It's not always easy to de-clutter!
All the best Jan
this one is touching and reminded me things belong to us and her olden day that my mom kept safely
but when she died my sister took over and now i have only memories of them
I'm a firm believer in this!!!!
As an only child, I had to clean out and sell my family home. It was a huge and horrid job! Never want to do that, to our children.
As for myself, they know what are the _few_ items, I "leave to them".
They also know, to have NO guilt, about anything, they do not want. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anything else, of mine, still in the house, discard!
My husband is not quite to my point of view. But that is their issues, with him. Not me.
-smile-
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