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Downsizing...
On our journey of life we accumulate 'things' - be they necessities (like that coffee cup you love!), or memorabilia (like the gift that really hit the mark and reminds you of someone special), or simply useful items you use every day, or would if you were stationary and not nomadic. In the last 16 years I've been through many downsizing moves as the kids have slowly spread their wings and taken off on their own journeys. The last downsizing was when I left Australia in 2019 to work in Japan for 20 months. Well we all know what happened in 2020, and so shifted everything for me. By January 2021 I became someone with a storage unit! And almost all my worldly possessions (packed by others in my apartment in Tokyo and shipped back while I moved to the UK) went into storage, where they've been ever since! And the other things? Left with daughter? Well she also ended up moving to UK, and so it went into storage too.
So to shorten this saga, I'm currently culling - emptied the 2nd storage unit yesterday and now understand why she didn't 'dump' it all - it's books, photos, crystalware, full dinner set, cantina of silver cutlery, precious photo frames and gifts.
How do you cull this stuff?
Have you ever had to do this? Were you able to get rid of the beautiful handmade 'Fairy Godmother' doll given to you by a friend you'd had for years on the other side of the world and who passed before you had the chance to actually meet, even through video because we didn't have that ability back then?
Yes, I'm a hopeless sentimental! But I want to know how you might have managed it, culled those items?
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