Stuff

One of the best things about moving is that you have to confront your stuff, the things that you bought, for instance.  Stuff goes into two categories: the things I need now and the things I never really needed or don't need anymore.  You no longer ski but you have ski paraphernalia.  This is an easy one.  But the harder stuff is the stuff you never really needed but bought to satisfy or fill some need or void.  You have four knit sweaters.  You bought a fifth one in a different or the same color for reasons that seems vague now, or that were meant to fill a void at the time of purchase.  Here, you now get a chance to look back on memory lane, or shopping to make you feel better.  Don't beat your self up.  Just be glad it is not the way you solve a void today.  That fifth sweater goes in the give-away carton.  I will be doing all this soon enough.