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RE: Letting Go of Old Things: From Dust to Creativity
I call myself"the reformed hoarder," and that's not hyperbole. I totally had the psychological issue. If you had given me another decade or two at that rate, I could have been on the show.
But then I moved into this apartment, with little storage, and couldn't hide it anymore! It was stacked up in my face, driving me insane. So I slooooowly began to work on it, both in the psychological as well as the physical purging of stuff sense.
I do feel SO much lighter now. It feels so good. Every bag or box that is out I feel that much freer. It is so good for the psyche.
Moving always seems to be the best reason to tackle these buildups. I have a period in the late 1990s where I moved five times in three years, and I actually managed to get the size of my life reduced down to what comfortable fit in a 1-bedroom apartment and a small storage unit.
Then I got back into a relationship and we moved to larger spaces and it seems like we inevitably grow to fill the available space... the kids have left home now, so there's a sincere incentive to downsize again, because we really don't need this big house anymore, and there will soon come a time when it feels like "too much work" to take care of all this.