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Letting go of possessions before planning to downsize

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@sueinmn Deciding what to downsize can be a dilemma. I am on a fabric and yarn diet, telling myself there will be no buying more until my substantial respective stashes are diminished! And that also goes for my other accumulated art supplies. As for clothes, those have never been a big draw for me, and it will be easier to release good clothes that haven't been worn, knowing they will benefit others.

Our neighbor lost everything in a wildfire in 2018. Since then, she has hoarded stuff of all kinds. All it takes is a look at her house for me to understand the idea of letting go of possessions can be fraught with emotions!
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@gingerw we could be sisters with the fabric and yarn stash. My sister in law is 6 years younger than I am and will retire at the end of this year (she’ll be 70). She’s a quilter and a crocheter (I’m a knitter). I have her name on the bins with the really good quilt fabric in case I pop my clogs before my husband does and he knows to ship those fabrics to her along with my two Juki sewing machines. I plan to send her all my good cotton yarns when she retires as I knit mostly with wool and she lives in SoCal, so works with cottons and acrylics. The rest of the yarn is to go to the Fiber Arts Guild that I belong to, to sell to members or give as prizes, to raise money for the guild. I have some really fine yarns, including yarns for tapestry weaving which I no longer do. At one time I had a very small flock of sheep and two angora goats, raised for their fleece and I scoured, carded, dyed and spun yarn myself. I have way too much fabric and yarn now, however, for the time I have to work on my hobbies. I’m also not a clothes horse, still pretty much a tomboy at age 75, lol, so purging clothes is not a problem.