Chat with Hatch

I’ve put my house on the market – time to downsize – I guess you know you’re getting old when it’s time to downsize – ha!  Downsizing, to me, these days, just seems like the practical thing to do, so I’m gonna do it.  The idea of simplifying is very attractive to me.  I don’t look forward to going through everything, deciding what goes & what doesn’t, but I do look forward to having done all that.  Some day (soon, I hope), I’ll surely look back and be sooo glad I did this! 

I attended a conference one time when the subject was just this; going though stuff & downsizing.  I learned something very interesting and useful.  They were talking about what to do with stuff our loved ones left us if we really don’t like it, or don’t have room for it.  They said we should graciously accept the gift of course, but that once it’s ours, we’re free to get rid of it if we want.  (They said it’s a very liberating exercise – a way to help us move on with our life.)  Here’s the interesting thing… they said if we don’t like it, or don’t have room for it, but keep it anyway… we can end up actually resenting the giver, our loved one, for having saddled us with it.  Further, they explained that we are much better off (mentally) if we just go ahead and get rid of it – that is… if we neither like nor have room for it.

So… as you get the ‘fever’ to do some serious ‘spring cleaning’, I encourage you to join me in simplifying your surroundings – your environment.  Free yourself from that, which you’ve been saddled, if you no longer like it nor have room for it!  As Nike would say, just do it!

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