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I am still purging..feels good!  | |
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I've done it, Shanti, and I commend you! There's no more liberating a feeling than getting rid of a bunch of CRAP! After a while, the things you own begin to own you.
KEEPING TOSSING STUFF!!  [Edited 9/8/07 7:19am] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I made a major move, three years ago. In the process, I got rid of a TON of stuff. I'm about to clear out a bunch of things and give away a bunch of things, too: clothes to charity, CDs & books to the library. | |
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Lammastide said: I've done it, Shanti, and I commend you! There's no more liberating a feeling than getting rid of a bunch of CRAP! After a while, the things you own begin to own you.
KEEPING TOSSING STUFF!!
[Edited 9/8/07 7:19am] Thank you...means a lot coming from you
I still have a lot more to go through.. Last week I purged my vehicle that I had for 9 years, now I am going through my desk at work and purging. I hope to have all of my belongings purged down to about 6 large totes, some clothes and the dog. I met a woman the other day that said when she moved here she had to rent 2 of the larged U-Hauls that she could find and they were crammed full of stuff. WOW!!! | |
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Hey You!!!  I'm so  for you...it is really getting close for you and Phil.....
I am in the midst of a much smaller purge.....packing stuff, throwing away some of the junk I've accumulated in the past 13 months....its amazing how much junk you pick up along the way when you have nothing else to do but buy stuff... 
in any event I hope all goes well until the big day.....  and then all WILL be well.....for all of us....because I'll be a shade over 40 days when you cross the big pond....
 He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
(George Eliot) the video for the above... 
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I recently helped move my mother who sold her house of over 30 years.
She wanted to save all kinds of stuff she'd have no room -- or further use -- for. And, of course, when she arrived at her new, downsized place, she had to part with much of it anyway. I tossed a bunch of stuff, including a lot of crap I amassed as a kid. She kept asking, "Don't you wanna keep that?" But I explained it's the memories that are rich, not the material props that define them. In the end I saved only two things from my entire childhood -- the Sesame Street jacket that I wore on my first day of kindergarten (  don't tell 9s) and a silver mezuzah that hung in our doorway, left by the Jewish family that lived in our home before us.
So I keep the memories, but I'm unfettered by a bunch of crap that won't let me move forward to create new memories! [Edited 9/8/07 7:30am] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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reneGade20 said: Hey You!!!
I'm so for you...it is really getting close for you and Phil.....
I am in the midst of a much smaller purge.....packing stuff, throwing away some of the junk I've accumulated in the past 13 months....its amazing how much junk you pick up along the way when you have nothing else to do but buy stuff...
in any event I hope all goes well until the big day..... and then all WILL be well.....for all of us....because I'll be a shade over 40 days when you cross the big pond....
Hey you
Yes it is getting close....I have 17 days left in the US 
So much left to sort out 
I cannot wait until the four of us are home, settled and back to life | |
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Lammastide said: I recently helped move my mother who sold her house of over 30 years.
She wanted to save all kinds of stuff she'd have no room -- or further use -- for. And, of course, when she arrived at her new, downsized place, she had to part with much of it anyway. I tossed a bunch of stuff, including a lot of crap I amassed as a kid. She kept asking, "Don't you wanna keep that?" But I explained it's the memories that are rich, not the material props that define them. In the end I saved only two things from my entire childhood -- the Sesame Street jacket that I wore on my first day of kindergarten ( don't tell 9s) and a silver mezuzah that hung in our doorway, left by the Jewish family that lived in our home before us.
So I keep the memories, but I'm unfettered by a bunch of crap that won't let me move forward to create new memories!
[Edited 9/8/07 7:30am] Indeed
Well put | |
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Lammastide said: I recently helped move my mother who sold her house of over 30 years.
She wanted to save all kinds of stuff she'd have no room -- or further use -- for. And, of course, when she arrived at her new, downsized place, she had to part with much of it anyway. I tossed a bunch of stuff, including a lot of crap I amassed as a kid. She kept asking, "Don't you wanna keep that?" But I explained it's the memories that are rich, not the material props that define them. In the end I saved only two things from my entire childhood -- the Sesame Street jacket that I wore on my first day of kindergarten ( don't tell 9s) and a silver mezuzah that hung in our doorway, left by the Jewish family that lived in our home before us.
So I keep the memories, but I'm unfettered by a bunch of crap that won't let me move forward to create new memories!
[Edited 9/8/07 7:30am] 
I helped my parents do the same in 2005. The process helped me reevaluate the way I'd held on to stuff (on many levels). | |
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On Sept 20th I will purge my job then the best thing that I cannot wait to purge is my bed and bedroom suit. I have had it since I was 12!! Every time that I have moved all of it I have said "this is the last time I am taking this with me!!" 24 yrs later..I still have it....HA!!!
Good bye bed FINALLY!!!
I am donating it to Habitat for Humanity and since the mattress and box springs are only 5 yrs old..someone will get good use out of the bed still. | |
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and the purging does not stop with material things...it also applies to ppl that I have called "friend" for ages but are really just aquaintances. | |
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