What to keep and what to chuck!

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It is funny how attached we can become to THINGS. As if a part of who we are lies within our STUFF.

 And we know with our minds that this is simply not true, but our emotions reveal that it might be something that we believe deep in the hidden corners of our hearts.

 We will have to let go of some stuff before we leave in May. And deciding what should stay and what should go is no easy task. Not even for the kids. 

 Charma really wants to take her bedside table and her bedside lamp along.
Declan wants to take ALL his remote controlled cars.
I want to take my piano (hahahahaha.... :-) I know....)
Pieter wants to take his tools. (Of course his stuff is the most practical of all of our things...)

 But we will have to sort through things and let go.

 Why do we hold on to stuff? I have concluded that we hold onto it, because of 2 things:

  1. We need it
  2. We are overly sentimental about it
This hurts, because I really do not want to let go of albums and pictures and books - all of which are not really necessary to live - but I want it. They are like treasures to me.

So, anyway - enough of the philosophical and onto the practical...

Practically, we will keep a lot of stuff as it will not be economically wise to have to buy beds and sofas and stuff to fill the house when we get back.

Machines will probably not work anymore if we store them for a year, so they will either be sold or given to someone to use while we are away.

 Other things will simply be damaged too much in storage.

 And then there are things that not going to be used when we get back (they are not being used at the moment!) and all of that should just go.

 I have started with the books on my bookshelf and the pictures on my walls. It is already painful to let go. But the process carves away at my own sentimentality. And I think that in the end, it will turn out to be a very good thing.

 “Don’t collect for yourselves treasures Or valuables on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. Pr 23:4; Heb 13:520But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, Mt 19:21; Lk 12:33; 18:22; 1Tm 6:19 where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19)

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