I am truly fulfilled by what I do and love telling people about it. I write and share short weekly articles called “blogs” on the themes of: family treasures, letting go of stuff, sentiment & nostalgia, preserving memories, supporting the moves of our elders, and more. You can receive these blogs weekly by email by signing up at the bottom of the page.
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Are you looking for a way to make your downsizing or decluttering more fun? How about the Five OR 10 Game?
If you are burdened with too many bowls or screwdrivers or garden rakes or ball caps, here is one way to decrease your numbers.
As your eye wanders over your collection, set yourself a number. Is it five or 10 or 12 (what’s your lucky number?). That number is your limit. Now choose which five or 10 or 12 items to keep.
Some people who are physical distancing at home are tackling downsizing jobs including books. (And for others whose lives have been turned upside down, a task such as this is the last thing that crosses our minds. I fully acknowledge that the COVID-19 Pandemic is affecting us in a variety of ways.)
Are you someone who owns many books and the time has come to rightsize or downsize?
For any of us who are book lovers or whose career has involved collecting books, there comes a time when we know that at least some of them must go. This can be a very challenging task!
Read MoreWhat are some options to honour one’s work life as we downsize, change careers or retire? Readers posed this question in response to my recent posting about recognizing a grain farmer’s lifetime impact on Canada’s economy and feeding the world. Other readers suggested ways that they might remember their own work lives.
So what’s the situation? As we change careers, move to smaller housing, or simply wish to have less stuff around, what do we do with the tools of the trade that meant so much to us? Examples include stacks of teacher lesson plans or a driver’s logbooks.
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