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I just moved from London...My War on Clutter: Inspiration for Independence Day By: Merlin Mann (11 replies) July 3, 2007 - 7:08am |
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I just moved from London...
I just moved from London to San Francisco and got rid of 80% of everything I own - hard, as I’m quite a hoarder.
Two things helped, even if they’re a little odd:
writing journal entries about memories/feelings as I gave up things I’d hung onto for happy/sad reasons for years
for things like clothes, books etc that I loved but wouldn’t read/wear again (and that didn’t make it into my two archive boxes of mementoes): I had a small ceremony where I thanked them for the great times and hoped they would be able to help someone else have happy times, and then I put them in the charity bag.
good luck letting go!