I'm a bit of a pack rat myself, but have been slowly getting better. Kijiji is my friend.
(I realize this post is a bit scattered... we will get somewhere, I promise). As a child, I found a box in our downstairs closet. Looking through it I found the memorabilia from my Dad's childhood. This box obviouly resonated with me.
When I moved back to Calgary after getting married, my parents dropped off boxes of my stuff. (I don't recall how many, but there were alot). About six months ago, I took my first stab at sorting through it all. I had two goals.
The first : Everything I keep has to fit within one box.
The Second: It has to be important to me, but also items that when my kids look at them, will give them a glimpse of my childhood.
After the first pass I ended up with two boxes. One, almost full of stuff that I knew I needed to keep, without question. The second box has sat in our bedroom for months. I finally (after watching an episode of Consumed), brought it downstairs and set to work on it yesterday.
I ended up parting with more than half of it. Some to Good Will (the picture frames that held my piano certificates, some clothes I wore when I lived in Africa, and a couple of books). There was also a pile I was happy to throw away.
There was one pile of 'unknowns', that after talking with my Mom, I parted with. A book about MC Escher sold through Kijiji in one day.
I now have all of my childhood memorabilia in one box. A box of things that I love, all are important to me, and will be a neat box for my kids to look through one day.
It makes me wonder as I look around our home, what items my kids may keep as treasures of their childhood.
4 comments:
Do you know I didn't bring any of my childhood things with me to Canada - they're all in my parents' house in England. I think your idea of just keeping one box with all the really important stuff is a good one!
hope chests! i say chests because i have a few :) haha i don't like hoarding things AT ALL but these childhood mementos are SOO hard to let go of! good for you, organizing feels sooooo good!
i have a few boxes that i really need to sort out . . . i think i will get through them this winter . . . we sorted through and organized all of isaac's room and legos on friday last week - that was a long job - but awesome to have done! :)
way to go, getting it all sorted out and just doing it!
how is grace recovering? i've been praying for you all!
I think that's great. One box, well edited, will be so much more meaningful to you and to the generations who use it to learn about you! We don't get Consumed here, but we get Hoarders---I watch it on Netflix.
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