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What do we do with all this stuff?
Aging Well | Last Active: Feb 8 12:03am | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
Oh Joy !🫶🏼 This brightens my day!☀️
It confirms what my beautiful husband and I tell our comfortably numb aging family, colleagues, and people we come across in our daily lives; children will share their lives with you but they don't owe you their lives.
While you are healthy start working on getting rid of stuff. Death is hard enough for children or people in general to deal with. Plus, who wants to pay to haul your memorabilia to their home for sentimental reasons just to collect dust.
Children pretty much know what they want far as things from their parents and let them know ahead of time. My kids when we relocated showed us a thing or two via observation and listening. They don't know what we learned from them. 😁 But it was enough to open our eyes and minds to the truth that you can only live one life. Your's and the person you will be living with and the memories you make together are yours and yours alone. The things you accumulate in this short lifetime although meaningful to you are temporary and must be disposed of by you if possible and not others.
Holding onto things sucks! All it does is make You become a physical and emotional hoarder. It's time to say, Things thanks for all the wonderful memories.
Box 📦 it up, sell it, donate it, or give it away.
Set yourself free and Enjoy the rest of your life!! ☕️🍩🌅
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When I was in my 20's my house was robbed and precious childhood mementos were stolen.
Surprize! I did fine without them, and was relieved not to have to "home" them as I moved on through my life.
And I learned that the feelings I attached to those objects continued to live in me (which was why I "loved" those objects in the first place).
When my parents died I went through the house and found surprisingly little that I needed or truly wanted. My nephew is disabled, so we arranged for him to move in and take over the house as his own.
Now I'm planning to send the lightweight mementos to the younger generations...if they want them.
I keep the very smallest, easy to maintain memory objects: My mother's first grade report card from 1927. I used it for a bookmark where I just found it again 20 years later, and meanwhile it's been useful!