Ever get things ready for a garage sale? It's a lot of work! Going through things, picking out forgotten items, deciding what to price them (not to much and not to little).
Now try it with everything you own.
We collect so many things as we walk through life. Where does it all come from? How could we possibly need it all? half of it? any of it? True, there are those special items--that tall glass from New Year's Eve at a Chinese restaurant in Georgetown, TX from 20 years ago, the pampered chef collection that you use some piece of everyday, the book you haven't read yet, but definitely will someday. The list goes on and on. Where does it end? I guess it ends when you have so many "special" things you have to step over them and can't even remember why they were all so special in the first place.
I don't want to be a collector anymore. But it is no easy habit to break. I guess selling them one "special" item at a time is the best way to start. Someone will pay 25 cents for those old fish tanks rocks I've been hanging on to just in case, I know it!
Our plan is to leave with only what we can carry in our suitcases and store only the irreplaceable. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Those may be some BIG suitcases.
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