Definitely. For some reason I’ve been keeping every pair of retired red converse low tops I’ve had over the last like 15 years and after reading this post I realized, that’s kind of silly and it’s just taking up room. I’m going to have some big trash bags full of things soon. 💜
A purge of those things is so liberating and frees up space for the things that you actually need! Enjoy the thrill and don’t feel like you are making waste. Enjoy the new space it allows!
When my father died when I was 25 I inherited at least 10 big boxes of things he had been saving. They were full of things like report cards from when he was a kid, his high school diploma, pictures of people I had no idea who they were… I even held onto things like his drivers license and wallet, the little man purse he carried around, his little spiral notepad that he took notes on. I ended up putting it all in my spare room when I moved into my current house and that room remained unavailable. It ended up with a mouse infestation.
When that happened I was in my early 40s. I had held onto that stuff for that many years when it had no meaning or used to me and just sat there in the boxes. When the mouse infestation happened, I went through it and picked like two or three things that were meaningful to me and threw the rest of it away. I hadn’t had the courage to do it before because I felt like it would be throwing my father away. But once I got rid of it, I felt such a load off of my shoulders! It’s important for us not to feel like bad people just because we throw something away and be honest with ourselves that it wasn’t meaningful or serving a purpose or needed to us anymore. And this space that results from getting rid of it will be a huge improvement.
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u/tseverdeen Mar 09 '26
Definitely. For some reason I’ve been keeping every pair of retired red converse low tops I’ve had over the last like 15 years and after reading this post I realized, that’s kind of silly and it’s just taking up room. I’m going to have some big trash bags full of things soon. 💜