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But it's on my punch list to get rid of finally... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460040123504-QSP2DSTB1G3W0HR8LNS3/ornaments.jpg Grasping Here are some of my share of ornaments from my grandparents' collection which I now possess after going through thousands of them with my sisters -- One. By. One. [add ornament story link later] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460043074376-72TM2TK7PK9IGKVH8NFB/breck+skipass+2909.jpg Grasping Mementos can be particularly possessive -- clingy, demanding, hard to part with. This one was not too hard, but taking a picture helps... (#2909, ski pass; trashed) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460063937258-3MR5MQPFJ5BNAELXJMXH/HO+train+and+map+pic.jpg Grasping Two treasures: an HO train from my childhood sitting on a Raven map of Pennsylvania... so many fond memories combined in this one picture... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460063569121-Z91IYM3J3H5F93AUYEXY/office+nest2+v42815.JPG Grasping This is part of my office nest from April '15 -- a mix of valued treasures (that's a diploma in the second drawer of the cart on the left, for example) and junk. This was after a lot of purging, and it looks even better now... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460064117858-RLTYZDI2JH1MYDH4G3SE/bed+1286+41015.jpg Grasping Was my hoard getting in the way? That was one of my fears, but now that I've worked on reducing my hoard, several things in this picture are now available for me to appreciate... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460400077717-1J7EM3ZBHU94TBYJJY2T/bassinet.jpg Grasping “It might be worth something; I can’t just throw it out...” (#672, bassinet; donated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460400174356-IP5F28DR78IRTYWK0W5S/674+suitcase.jpg Grasping "This could be a family heirloom; I just can't give it away..." (#674, suitcase; donated eventually...) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460400715893-P72GOR6N2MEMSOZGPHUT/1506+nordic+track+slimmed.jpg Grasping “I paid a lot of money for that; I can’t just give it away...” (#1506, Nordic Track; Freecycled) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460400798960-9FWNN75PJNMA02DLFM1I/1000th+thing+redone+416.jpg Grasping "I can't get rid of this; I might read it again someday..." (#1000, The Art of War; donated to Little Free Library) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460400901851-CYVW41AW92Z8ZCMYTA4R/hiking+boots+1284+4815.jpg Grasping "These boots and I have been through so much together; it'd be like throwing a part of my life away..." (#1284, hiking boots; donated to Planet Aid) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460409555946-3N5D330SKXLAB92AW7U4/153+honda+accord.jpg Grasping So many stories with this car that I had for 13 1/2 years & 213K+ miles... (#153, 2000 Honda Accord; donated to Vehicles for Change) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460409799224-WH0MP1XK2NZ8VWLQ52AC/572+license+plate.jpg Grasping ...a simple piece of metal that evokes memories of times and places, memories of love and marriage and fun weekend excursions and of lives past... (#572, license plate; recycled) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460411128738-URBH83UJK2OYAX9TTWKA/ll+bball+cap+1685.jpg Grasping ...things that preserve memories from all our stages of life, whether the things themselves are well preserved or not... (#1685, Little League baseball cap; trashed because of mold) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460411525825-CDMI18I0II771XCKT9OA/paper+clutter+614+smaller.jpeg Grasping ...even the humblest of objects -- a folder, a pencil, some rags -- have a story to tell if we choose to listen... 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(#600, plastic toy storage bin; Freecycled) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1456090354907-4VMIAHB0OK7B2KMKXX2X/bed+1286+41015.jpg Letting Go Even though I don't know the story of where this bed ended up, I can be grateful that it's found a new home where it's being used -- creating its own new stories... (#1286, twin bed; donated to A Wider Circle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1456090363382-SPO7MTT1RE9M1WDMLZQI/IMG_2226_1024.jpg Letting Go I finally bit the bullet and gave this away -- by chance, to the same person whose gratitude was the first I encountered on my journey... (#1506, Nordic track; #29, golf cart; both Freecycled) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1456090371281-VF0AWDQ8CO89KN03YQ21/LLWS+program+front.jpg Letting Go ...Sometimes we can use getting rid of things to express gratitude, as I did with this Little League World Series program, sent to the LLWS Museum in honor of my dad, who was a Little League coach and assistant coach and kept score for the game we attended using this program. (#2079: Little League World Series program, 1962; Donated). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460168349264-PRDZXSGFPZ7FNL2UKUWV/my+personal+smithsonian+retouched+416.jpg Letting Go A storage section of my personal Smithsonian: collections of things I kept because... why was I keeping all this stuff again? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460168934815-QWY540V5PTKA7WV4R3H5/staging+nest+416.jpg Letting Go - A Staging Nest Stuff that has been culled and is ready to go out the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460169729412-RLOFLV0DT6O5G8VZUZ61/1000th+thing+115.jpg Letting Go - Good Purging I've culled through my book collection several times now, keeping the ones I really want and donating lots of books like this one (#1000) to Little Free Libraries in my town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460169382250-5B8SVVMYSZO62N6DUVGR/bad+purging.jpg Letting Go - Bad Purging Random items in a coffee can (on left) from my parents' house. Encountering cans upon cans upon jars of this stuff exhausted our patience, and usually we threw it all away because we just couldn't deal with it anymore... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460170651306-RF9RCOBAUQ3SFE06MA3H/display+416.jpg Letting Go - Putting Things on Display Some of these things were in boxes for 20 years or more; I can appreciate their stories more often now that I have fewer things, and now that they're on display... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ae3104f699bb7d5f4fb305/1460229006411-50M2NCRCNVNLWJATPR3Q/tools+that+remain+316.jpg Letting Go - Thoughtful In, Thoughful Out (TITO): My 3rd 1000 things project ended with a tool cull (#2921-3005; Freecycled): a lot of work to sort them all, but a great example of TITO. 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