Selling off preloved items

You know how when you've been living in a place, particularly a house, you tend to accumulate a whole lot of stuff that you don't even remember buying or owning? Yup, this is kind of happening over here right now and as you age, you discover you don't need as many things. Hence, I am and will be trying to sell off some of the things that I think is merely taking up space, don't serve a purpose anymore or can benefit someone else if sold.

And finding myself attaching to those items. Even things that I have never even made use of before and things that I thought only got in the way of life itself.

Like a painting. I find myself thinking but it's been there since forever, since we've moved in and but the wall looks so different without the painting there. Change and letting go of things is not easy for me, I don't know about the rest of you. Some people like to declutter...and that is why I suffer when it comes to change.

But slowly, one by one, I WILL let those things go. Like that extra guitar I have in my son's room, a guitar that he doesn't even use....heck, he doesn't even play either one and yet, I am hanging onto the second one for just in case he decides to play a guitar again. I know, I don't understand my brain sometimes too.

I am staring at some of the things and trying to imagine it in someone else's home and they actually making use of it, causing joy, laughter and happiness. That's what I am hoping for because there are memories attached to these things despite the fact that I don't use or need them anymore.

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