Technology (what if I need to send a fax a few years from now?).Bargains (didn’t need it but it was a good deal).The reasons for hanging onto it generally falls into these categories: We don’t want heirlooms and keepsakes pushed on us, so why do that to your kids?īeyond the items we use and enjoy each day, most of us own a lot of stuff that rarely gets used. You can save stuff from the past and try to give it to future generations but really, for the most part, they want to come up with their own treasures. I know I can’t change what he keeps but that objectivity from him enabled me to let go of whole bunch of things that were really just my own emotional clutter in a bunch of tidy looking bins. And part of me was hoping he’d insist I save it so I wouldn’t have to deal with the inner conflict myself.Īnd, conversely, the stuff that he hangs onto has little or no meaning for me.
I learned this as I was decluttering our old house and I asked my husband about a childhood toy I had saved for years (something I had long been attached to but had no need for) and soon saw it had zero meaning for him-despite all the emotions I carried for it! Imagine that. And these hotspots (difficult to deal with items) usually only have meaning for one person.
Emotionally-Charged Stuff Is Highly OverratedĪs I worked through my own decluttering I realized that I clearly left the hardest decisions to last.Īt the old house, I got rid of the easy, low-hanging fruit.Įveryone will find certain aspects of decluttering straight forward and later stumble upon their own emotional hotspots.
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