un-packing

[bryiarrose]

how does anyone make decisions about the things collected as memories--presents, decoration, keepsakes--when the memories are no longer current?

when they cease being applicable to the current definition of your history, what have they become? certainly no less meaningful, beautiful, strange or sad, but still something that takes up space.

how do you decide.. what stays, what goes, what guilt will let you part with?

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[humpingbears.livejournal.com]

I'm working on this very problem right now. Painful but very necessary. There's been a box sitting in the corner of my living room since I moved to DC 2 years ago. It's stuff, mostly gifts, that I moved up here from Nashville. I figure, if I never missed them in 2 years, I don't need to move them to Texas, no matter how much I like the people who gave me the stuff. Yeesh.