I'VE BEEN DOWN IN THE BASEMENT going through boxes of CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. I'll have to do this task a little at a time as there is so much to look through, I just about can't do it. Staring at it all isn't helping.
I do have some order...but I need to downsize for our exodus to RETIREMENT COTTAGE in 2022. This is a nice place to be in my LIFE where there is too much instead of not enough. Even if we didn't have plans to relocate in the future...I'd be downsizing. I have way too much stuff which weighs me down more than I want to be.
Placing the CHRISTMAS JUNK that I will be getting rid of in boxes makes the task of turning loose a little easier for me which helps knowing what I will keep. What will I keep? This is a great time of year to thin through these treasures. October and November is a cushion between here and Christmas time. Mid October, I hope to be through the brunt of the Christmas decor just in time to get Halloween candy purchased and put some more Harvest decorations out.
Another round of purging. Two factors come to mind when downsizing the Christmas decor...in the long run if there be a long run, I don't want to be lugging all this around with me anymore. I have gone through so many phases over the years that I am ready to turn loose of much. So downsizing for the sake of downsizing is one factor plus focusing on what I'd like to have for future Christmases, with a different sense of decorating. More natural?
Not so much to store and to deal with. I remember as a child Mom had an old suitcase stored in the shed that held the Christmas decorations. One suitcase of sparkles and ornaments. Her Nativity Scene was in another box and if my memory serves me right...that was it. We usually had a REAL TREE. Precious memories of Christmas PAST. Big colored electric light bulbs of red, green, orange and blue were placed in the bushes out front. When it would snow, the lights glowed through the layers of white snow that settled on top. Clusters of colored light patches shown through.
This past week-end one of our large flocked Christmas trees in a storage box went to a different HOME and so did a smaller Charlie Brown looking tree. Two down and I'm not sure how many to go. Not there yet. First comes more of the Knick-Knacky stuff.
Back to the basement I go. I caught my breath and rested my aching back. Another round of downsizing in progress.
It would be so easy for me to ignore it and pretend it didn't need attention, but then who am I kidding? It's got to be done. Instead of dragging my feet and putting this off until another year, I've got to deal with it.
WHAT's IN THE BASEMENT? Lots.
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