My husband and I have put almost all of our rarely (or never) used junk in storage in preparation for a theoretical/probable future move. It's actually been a very good thing to do as I've realized that we don't need any of it. In fact, he has suggested a couple of times, "Why not just throw everything in the storage unit out rather than move it?" My reponse: NO!!! There's sentimental stuff in those boxes. And that's only half true. The things I would miss are my childhood Gund stuffed animals (I got one every year for Christmas from my parents, and they're still in pristine condition, so I want to give them to potential future children) and my Dolly Dingle paperdolls (much beloved international paperdoll set introducing me to fun paperdolls like "Beppy" the little Dutch boy). That's really it. In fact, I can't with full certainty tell you what's in any of the other boxes.
But I have a sneaking fear that we will instead move everything to a new house, put it in the "junk room" until we slowly unpack the boxes and they seep back into closets and drawers and false sentimentality.
My main goal is to not get as bad as my grandma (loved the woman very much, did not love her habit of saving EVERYTHING and writing "precious--keep" on it in pencil). After she had died, my mom and aunts found a butter tub with rocks in it that had a little piece of paper attached that said "precious--keep; these were the rocks that girls played with in June of 1954 and pretended they were food for a tea party."
I want to store my treasures in Heaven and take the rest to the dumpster. Except Beppy and his fun friends.
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Love this post. Chad and I deal with the same issue all the time. "Where did all this crap come from?" is a common line around our house. Moving does help curb the clutter. Good luck!
speaking of grandmas and keeping stuff.....my grandma keeps the butter containers---nothing in them, just the containers themselves...her house has a full sized basement, and I think half of it is full of butter containers....
the scary thing is that my mom is starting to do grandma things. when my niece was born, my mom saved all the newspapers from while she was in the hospital and dumped them in my sister's house with "precious--save" written all over the top of them.
keeping a newspaper from November 28, 1963--makes sense. pasting small headlines in scrapbook to flip through--makes sense. saving large stacks of newspaper that NO ONE wants to read ever again--pricelessly silly.
and you will soon fall too, my precious..... ;)
...as probably will we all....
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