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<blockquote data-quote="ravensmitten" data-source="post: 2696292" data-attributes="member: 566099"><p>All good advice</p><p></p><p>Not that this is aimed at [USER=25851]@Annb[/USER] or anyone, just carrying on the conversation.</p><p></p><p>For me it’s always the thought that is worse (extends to lots of things)</p><p></p><p>Like your taking a photo example, I too tend to find the memory isn’t bound up in the object either, it’s always in my mind, even if the object might serve as a reminder of the memory.</p><p></p><p>When I lived alone (and still do with my stuff) I got into the habit of using those big plastic boxes you get with lids and the attic, I’d put a bunch of items into a box, sometimes would make a list, sometimes not. Then after a year, if I hadn’t touched or used or thought about any of the items in the box/es, I would let them go.</p><p></p><p>Oddly how liberating it felt each time.</p><p></p><p>I started doing this setting reminders to think about what’s in those boxes in 90 day increments too, because I found that I was just keeping stuff for longer than it needed to be. And yes, I did have to repurchase a few cables over the years but I worked it out as cheaper than “paying” in space to store them in the house. Not to mention the unconscious mental burden.</p><p></p><p>I did ponder the environmental aspect of this and the excess consumption thing also and came to the conclusion that it didn’t matter where it was located in the world it was still there, I’d already bought the item so that decision was made long ago, and most often I’d donate the thing I wasn’t using so it could potentially be put to use by someone. That only left me with the re-buying a new item if I did indeed need it but this has happened so rarely than the thought that I’d need it in my mind, that it’s never been a massive problem of excessive consumption in itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ravensmitten, post: 2696292, member: 566099"] All good advice Not that this is aimed at [USER=25851]@Annb[/USER] or anyone, just carrying on the conversation. For me it’s always the thought that is worse (extends to lots of things) Like your taking a photo example, I too tend to find the memory isn’t bound up in the object either, it’s always in my mind, even if the object might serve as a reminder of the memory. When I lived alone (and still do with my stuff) I got into the habit of using those big plastic boxes you get with lids and the attic, I’d put a bunch of items into a box, sometimes would make a list, sometimes not. Then after a year, if I hadn’t touched or used or thought about any of the items in the box/es, I would let them go. Oddly how liberating it felt each time. I started doing this setting reminders to think about what’s in those boxes in 90 day increments too, because I found that I was just keeping stuff for longer than it needed to be. And yes, I did have to repurchase a few cables over the years but I worked it out as cheaper than “paying” in space to store them in the house. Not to mention the unconscious mental burden. I did ponder the environmental aspect of this and the excess consumption thing also and came to the conclusion that it didn’t matter where it was located in the world it was still there, I’d already bought the item so that decision was made long ago, and most often I’d donate the thing I wasn’t using so it could potentially be put to use by someone. That only left me with the re-buying a new item if I did indeed need it but this has happened so rarely than the thought that I’d need it in my mind, that it’s never been a massive problem of excessive consumption in itself. [/QUOTE]
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