GiselleI haven't quite finished my first pass through all my fabrics yet but I already have two and a half bags for the textile recycling container. Hoping to carry those there immediately after work. What's left the house can leave my head space and give me a touch more breathing space.
I should be able to find more stuff at the next pass - I get as many of those as I want.
My yarn is now bagged up in those vacuum storage bags, it looks weird. But takes up noticeably less space.
Carl C@Giselle Yay! This is one of my favorite things about passes... once you've dealt with the emotional strain of letting go of some of it, sometimes there's more you find you don't mind letting go of.
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It's weird isn't it. You'd think the first pass would be easiest and that it would get progressively harder. The opposite seems to be true: I let go of more with second and third passes (maybe coz I'm getting tired of seeing the same old crap, and the stuff that annoys me most just has to go!),- I wonder if that's because I get more used to chucking things. It becomes more appealing when the result is big relief, and I then want more of that heady feeling!
It's weird isn't it. You'd think the first pass would be easiest and that it would get progressively harder. The opposite seems to be true: I let go of more with second and third passes (maybe coz I'm getting tired of seeing the same old crap, and the stuff that annoys me most just has to go!),- I wonder if that's because I get more used to chucking things. It becomes more appealing when the result is big relief, and I then want more of that heady feeling!
@Giselle I think it's that combo of "getting rid of that stuff felt good" and "this stuff feels less important now, because I know getting rid of it isn't going to be as bad as I feared."
It is a great feeling.
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And with "ballast" I mean a mental weight of something like a millstone that's weighing you down. Not the meaning of stability/steadying support.
Ballast/burden as the excess that we don't need, nor really enjoy. The excessive items that form something like a protective wall or buffer of reassurance, that we have all this "stuff" with all this "potential" that we can fall back on in times of need. As if...
You can see that I spend a lot of time thinking about this subject!
@Giselle Oh, I think about it a lot. When I open a box that hasn't been opened in over 10 years and have this feeling that, "Oh, I can't get rid of this. I might want to use it soon."
And like... I haven't seen it in a decade! How important can it really be?
There are a few things I've been unable to find, and I'll want to keep those, but most of it really can't be that important.
I have office supplies that are 30 years old!
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I'm totally with you on that! I found papers/documents that are 30+ years old, I haven't looked at them, nor needed them, in a very long time. I will keep some where it feels important that I can pull dates from (or scan those), but chuck a lot. The most difficult is a box of 35+ year old letters from friends & family. Can't bear to throw those. I guess I'll keep one per person, and scan in most of rest. I binned letters where I dont recall the sender, "I knew a Ralph once? Who's that?"
I'm totally with you on that! I found papers/documents that are 30+ years old, I haven't looked at them, nor needed them, in a very long time. I will keep some where it feels important that I can pull dates from (or scan those), but chuck a lot. The most difficult is a box of 35+ year old letters from friends & family. Can't bear to throw those. I guess I'll keep one per person, and scan in most of rest. I binned letters where I dont recall the sender, "I knew a Ralph once? Who's that?"