#5 - If it doesn't fit anymore it better be an heirloom. Clothing tends to be peoples biggest hangup, and I don't just mean women... though more so women than men, we just don't want to let go of cloths. The truth is, we spend 80% of our lives wearing 20% of the wardrobe we collect over the years. That's just plain inefficient use of our bodily coverings, because that's all they are. If I can work off the weight, get rid of the clothes for now, buy or make something new when I can fit them. If they're wearable but need mending, I should fix them now, put them back into circulation. That and take better care of my clothes. It's cheaper in the long run.
#4 - If it has no bearing on the present or the future, it's garbage. We all want to keep those wobbly coffee mugs we made in art class, or the rusty trumpet our parents gave us as kids... but the fact is, if we are never going to use them in any useful manner, they are only extra weight and will bog down our future. They will dictate to us how and where we can live. I can't afford to store my life away when I'm living my life every day.
#3 - Old pictures of girlfriends, love letters we passed in school and Valentines from previous lovers do bring back fond memories, but chances are, you're married now (I am, currently) and the chances of your spouse finding them are pretty good. The chances their reactions will be pleasant, not so good. If you have to keep some kind of momento, don't keep the corsage, digitize it. Sometimes our favored memories will get us into hot water. It's usually a good thing to vault the memories, burn the evidence and, password protect the archives.
#2 - I have books I haven't read in years, I have more books I've never read and even more books people keep offering me because I like to talk about those subjects. Truth is, I'm never going to learn Linux. I like to think that I'll be able to escape from the Microsoft Monster, but I probly never will. The ammount of learning I'd have to do to be able to replicate my MS skills in another OS, will waste too much valuable time. I'll keep the Biggest references to few tech's I do use once in awhile, sell the rest. If I read a fantasy series, pass it on when it's completed. I will only need a few dozen books all the time, not the hundreds I store away for a rainy day. In the case of cookbooks, I would either convert each recipe to cardstock or put them all in a database, the books take too much space, but I'd keep no more than a couple.
#1 - Cohabitation. The #1 reason couples break up after moving in together is STUFF. Guys don't like moving into the girls place because there's stuff there. Where to put HIS stuff? Storage. Girls don't like guys stuff, period. They clean it up for them, then it's gone. Gone is the guys stuff that he's treasured and in it's place is the resentment that his stuff is gone because of her. Her stuff is perfectly fine, usually presentable when showing off the house, but it's not his. She can't touch his stuff and he's not allowed to touch hers... where does it end? I need to clean up my stuff. I have lots, less than some, more than others. Truth is, the other 4 reasons all touch on the same thing: Too much stuff, is not good. I'm down sizing my living arrangements temporarily, but it's the perfect time for me to sort through every box and container, and get rid of the stuff that's holding me down. Soon, I'll have to share my personal space again, and it won't work if we've got too much personal stuff.
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Friar Greg
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