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We all know the feeling — looking around your home and swearing to yourself you can’t possibly need all of this stuff. Surely, there must be someone out there who doesn’t have a bag of clothes that has been worn twice? You know, that’s got to be somebody else.
Perhaps you feel like you can’t realistically let go of your belongings because they’re memories of things from your past, and somehow those memories put value onto what’s in front of you now. But if we hold on too tightly, we’ll never break free and start living unencumbered by our baggage.
It’s important to learn to cut your possessions in order to find freedom within your home, but that doesn’t mean you should just randomly go out and throw out everything that has any sentimental value. You need to know what makes you happy or sad, what kinds of emotions do the objects evoke. Once you figure that out, then it’s time to get rid of things that aren’t on your emotional map.
Letting go of things doesn’t mean getting rid of them forever, it just means tossing them into a storage unit for a while until you figure out what they really mean for you. Here are nine practical ways to shed possessions once and for all:
