Decluttering

 The process is slow...

I realised today that my de-cluttering started...with the help of my 4 children.with kicking out, deservedly, of their father in 1997. 

But every time you move you sort a certain amount....run out of energy and repack it in boxes ( if it indeed came out) .

I've moved, sometimes had to move, many times since then. It knocks you "back to square one"

The good thing about decluttering is that it gives you more space, physical and mental.

The bad thing is that it takes time away from doing things...but doing things needs the physical and mental space...so it carries on going around in circles.

Keeping too much can be a reaction...I'm like my father in that...a reaction to people who clear out your precious things regardless...

My mother....and my ex....

I have always valued history....and things which prove it....

So I get together with Pirate, who had some of the same experience....and then we moved together, the contents from two three bedroom houses going into a one bedroom one living room (plus small bathroom and kitchen) that we call a"But 'n Ben" !!

We were slowly sorting things...being busy doing gardens for people as well as racing and training doesn't leave a lot of sorting time!...but now I have to sort and reduce for the two of us.

And it has started..one cast iron casserole, never used, sold...a few other things listed..on top of what has already gone to Op Shops.

And not the mug to come from any but an only child.....he put that at the back of the cupboard when that arrived! ( He had three kids...)

Sold...

There's a few more things to clean photograph and post online tomorrow.

Then there are my friends the books.....