I ALWAYS ENJOY GOING THROUGH THE PILE OF MAIL after being gone for a few days. Spending time this morning to go through the mail and rest before going back into the basement to scope out the CHRISTMAS decor that will disappear in a few days.
Am I ready to turn loose of more stuff and the answer is yes. Yes, I am ready to go another round of turning loose of much that I collected through the years. It's time for me to do this thing.
I seem to downsize in phases and like items. Focused on furniture already as well as Knick-knacks. Clothing will come later. Christmas decor next. Will have another round of dishes and glassware, books, general junk.
Mentally, I am continually thinking about what needs to go. What will go into storage and what will go into RETIREMENT COTTAGE. How will I decorate? What will need to be done to prepare the main house for selling?
Still have a ways to go in this journey. At 66 I believe it is a good time to downsize and shrink our so-called belongings. What will help make aging easier? What will help make living easier at a older age where we have slowed down some and need set free from so much responsibility? Will we be more carefree and able to do more of what we want to do? Should we be?
Time passes quickly. I'd rather not have to keep all the things I collected stored in my head. I remember Mom and Dad downsizing before they sold their house and moved into an apartment. I helped them some with boxing up and wrapping up items from their home to have it auctioned off before their move.
I knew then that I didn't want to have to do this in my 70s and 80s. Mom had things stashed behind pieces of furniture, under their beds, in closets, drawers, in the basement and garage. Stuffed and stashed full. Dad has since died and Mom moved into a different apartment. I helped her with that move as well. Less material possessions but still plenty to deal with. She's been in this apartment about 4 1/2 years. Her next relocation will be heaven and her possessions left behind will left to her children to decide what to do with.
I offered to downsize her closet as it's crammed full of clothing that she will never wear again in her lifetime. She wasn't ready to turn loose of it. If there are 365 days to a year then we really don't need more than 365 articles of clothing, do we? If you combine the 4 seasons into 2 such as group together Fall and Winter together and Spring and Summer clothing together then you really don't need more than 182.5 articles of clothing per season. I believe I can live with fewer items than 365 things.
The closet I will be able to use at the Cottage will definitely need far fewer clothing than 365 x 2 for Hubby and myself. 730 things. Nope. Can't do it. Don't want to nor will I.
My Sister downsized 6 years ago when they were getting ready to relocate to a different community. At the time she would have been 62 years old. She said it was emotional to turn loose of their possessions. I know that to be true as we suffered a home fire a few months after her downsizing. Our downsizing wasn't planned and I was not ready to say good-bye to our 42 years at that time of our estate. We lived to tell about it and are still changing.
It has taken 5 years to rebuild and now here I go downsizing. Another phase in LIFE. CHRISTMAS junk here I come. I'll take a peek at it this afternoon and make a mental record of what there is downstairs.
Hubby is unloading the patio brick from the moving van this afternoon. I will check up on him later today as a Grandson will help him unload these 6 pounds a piece bricks that came from Iowa. When I'm at the COTTAGE, I will go inside and see what next there is to do inside.
If I were more enthusiastic and excited about remodeling the COTTAGE and moving there, it would be healthier. I think I am still a bit in denial of what is going on here. Perhaps this is a way I deal with change. Cautious and slow paced. Are we doing the right thing, I wonder. I seem to want to be on the side of caution verses wild and free concept.
Soup for lunch and undecided about supper. Back to the Daniel Diet for me. I may do another round of the Color Wheel Diet where each day is focused on a different color. I've done that twice this past Summer and found it to be a fun way of eating vegetables and fruit.
Welp, I had best close and go CHRISTMAS SHOPPING in the dungeon.
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