What's messing with your Groove?

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Sorry to repeat myself, but down-sizing is really hard, so forgive my rant. I really don't want to get a storage unit, but there's just too many things that won't fit in a smaller or mobile life style. But once I give way to that idea, it's too easy to hang onto things that should probably go. Before ya know it I'm saying 'put that in the storage unit', and the pile doesn't get any smaller.

I found my parents' declaration of marriage in one of my boxes; it was a small bound book with handwritten dates and signatures. It doesn't really matter to anyone but them, but I couldn't throw it away. Same for their high school year books, and college year books.....all sorts of history that's been carried around for decades and passed down to generations for "posterity" for who knows what?

I have a bunch of swimming trophies, couldn't get rid of them, but once I'm gone why would my kids keep them, and who else would want them? Why do we hang onto so much STUFF and why is storage a multi-billion dollar industry?

It doesn't help that I'm reminded of a William Morris quote that anything meaningful should be beautiful or useful, and most of my stuff is neither. Or that if I faced a flood or wildfire one small box or go-bag should have all the important stuff worth saving.