To leave with a light mind and a light baggage, you have to get rid of the superfluous, and it is not so easy. Even if, like me, you have unloaded a lot of your belongings during your moves to smaller and smaller apartments, your closets remain cluttered.
And then, you have to leave with one bag, or even 2. That means 3 pants, 4 or 5 shorts, 4 tee-shirts (I’m not a fan of tee-shirts), a dozen polo shirts, underwear, a raincoat, 2 pairs of shoes, and the minimum to play golf anywhere…
What to do with the rest?
I divide it in 3 “lots”
- What I keep because
- they are memories, photo albums, gifts
- i just want to keep it
- i might need it when/if I come back one day to live in the area
- game console
- cd
- books
- comics
- golf decoration
- What I try to sell or give away
- to Emmaus ( a community for poor people)
- clothes
- dishes
- some decorative items or lamps, etc.
- to my family
- mask, fins, wetsuit, body board that I can also use when I’m visiting
- to Emmaus ( a community for poor people)
- What I throw away
- because it’s too old (clothes)
- because it’s too full of memories to get rid of
- because I don’t even know what it was for and why I kept it
