Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind

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That’s right. By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realize it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put your things in order means to put your past in order,

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The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi (Takarajimasha, Inc.),

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Will make no sense until you need to do it: Lowest, heaviest, and most mentally unclear period of your life will require you to throw things away. All material substance is the dense condensation of prior thoughts and emotions that birthed it. Every item in your... See more

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Reprogram your home:

Broken items you've been meaning to fix.
Everything that belongs to a past version of you.

This creates identity space.

Anything that fuels automatic consumption & passive distraction.
Anything that you made promise to yourself but didn't keep it.
Anything that keeps you connected to people or relationships that drain

Storage

-Mary Oliver

When I moved from one house to another
there were many things I had no room
for. What does one do? I rented a storage
space. And filled it. Years passed.
Occasionally I went there and looked in,
but nothing happened, not a single
twinge of the heart.
As I grew older the things I cared
about grew fewer, but were more
important. So one day