Downsizing....a word we often associate with large companies cutting back...or a term used to eliminate excess inventory.....Well, today was a day of "Downsizing" in our house. Only it wasn't...actual downsizing, it was imaginary downsizing.
We looked around the house, in cupboards and closets, surveying each room....and deciding what could stay and what could go. Certain pieces of furniture will need to be stored for our future return....some will go the girls.....some will go out on the street with a "free" sign attached. Then of course, there are things like our good dishes and crystal. Things I had planned to give to the girls when I died...instead...we will pass on before we leave on our semi-retirement. They might as well enjoy these things now...and even if we return full time, rent a new home etc.... we still don't "entertain"....and when we do....we use paper plates. Life really has become much more simple.
So today we spent a few hours, trying to determine what we really need to keep, what we want to pass on, and what we want to get rid of. Its a big challenge, but I am realizing .... in a rather somber moment...that there just isn't alot of material things I am attached to. It won't be so hard to let go... I don't think .
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