A hoarder.......

I have learned that I am a hoarder of sentiment.....having such trouble parting with things that hold sentimental meaning.......There is a bin in my basement that holds a ton of greeting cards.......a HUGE bin.......from christenings, graduations, birthdays......all of it......and some of them hold the meaning of having had the person who gave it to us no longer with us......and I never know what to do with all of it.....but I have so many corners like that in my life......and I can feel a strong call and urge to purge even more than I already have at this point of my journey.....I have already been able to throw out, or part with so much that no longer needs to be here.....or doesn't hold the meaning it once did......but I have more to go.....and that is my goal this summer......to thin out my life. I had hoped to get a dumpster last summer, and it never happened.....but the call for that is deepening.....and obviously I am not a true hoarder in a certain sense;-).....I have clear, organized, and beautiful spaces all over my house;-), but I also have some piles in my office, and my bedroom, neatly piled that have no place to be?? Like chargers......endless chargers.......ones we are not currently using, but I am holding onto them because they must belong somewhere right?? And just things....things that have some useful quality.....a waste to toss it.....but then there it is, and I do not need it......SO it is time.....time to get rid of the random things......thin it all out. However I have been able to part with some sentimental stuff that I thought it would be hard to do.....but I needed to get rid of it.....because the other piece I believe about hanging on, is that it traps energy.....energy in the pas, and the old......and in places that you no longer live in.....clogging it all up energetically.....so it is time to let it go.....and it felt good to throw a bunch of stuff like that out, not too long ago......and really I guess the mindset shift I am feeling is that memories.....and all of that live in my heart, and mind.....they do not need to be tangibly taking up space......and I always talk about the deeper places in me that need to be changed.....the ones that deeply run through my veins.....the harder ones to change.....and this is another one of those.....my brain doesn't even recognize that it needs to go until it is so obvious! So I am consciously purging.....ALL OF IT........simplifying my life......garage and basement taking center stage! I have some miscellaneous building materials that I will donate to Habitat for Humanity......and I will do my best to have all of it, land in hands that need it! But some of it will be thrown out too......And I am excited about the space it will free up, energetically, mentally, and otherwise in my life......this house no longer resembles my married life in so many ways, many of my old friends commenting on that when they come.....a single chick and mama pad if you will lol:) But there are still lingering places......old and tired......and needing to go......and that is my plan:) Happy Saturday! Enjoy:)