When the moving packing begins
“All this stuff, where did it come from?” It’s a thought that’s easy to have once or twice during a move. It’s easy to accumulate a lot of stuff, without there perhaps being any clear meaning or function to these things. If there are two or more people in the household, there’s an even greater risk that there’s a lot of stuff that now needs to be packed up and made room for.
There are two ways to handle the amount of stuff. Either pack everything neatly and neatly into boxes, no matter how many boxes you have to move to your new home. Or take the opportunity to review what is still relevant and worth saving in the long run.
Why are all the things saved?
Taking stock of your belongings before and during a move is a good idea. Especially if the move is to a smaller living space, perhaps one with significantly less storage space. Here there is an opportunity to get rid of things that have outlived their role, or that may never have had any function.
An important question to ask yourself is why we save on certain things? Is it because we think we have to? That certain things have to be saved because we received them from someone special, a gift that it would feel wrong to get rid of, regardless of whether it is just taking up space?
Or is it something that you or you think should be important? Think about whether the thing has been used in the past year, or whether it will be used in the near future. If the answer is no, why keep it? Often we do not think about how we actually live, but how it should be or how we would like it to be.
Save, sell, give away, throw away, your things
If the answer to certain things is that they have not been used or that it seems likely that they will be used at some point soon, the question is what to do with the thing. Even if it is an old gift, it hardly seems reasonable that the person who once gave the gift would want it to be a burden? After all, if it is not used or is of no use, most people would probably rather it was not left behind.
Think through what should be left behind. Once everything that should not be left behind has been sorted out, it is time to get to grips with these things. Things that are expensive, in perfect condition and worth money even if they have no value to you, may be worth trying to sell in the first place. and can be good places to start to sell the things you want to get rid of.
Otherwise, maybe a friend or relative might be interested in the things you want to get rid of? Ask directly if you know anyone or post a general question via social media, to see if anyone is interested.
As a final step, it can be quite liberating to take a trip to the Recycling Center and throw away the things that have just been gathering dust in a storage room, or even worse, have been sitting out for a long time without being used.