Update: If you happened to check for this morning's post earlier than 10:30am CT, I apologize for the lack of a new post. I thought I had it scheduled properly, but I must not have hit publish again after updating it for the last time. #newbie Thanks for reading!
It's Day 3 of Nester's challenge to write for 31 days on one topic, and I am still letting stuff go! #write31days #lettingstuffgo
Yesterday, I
let go of candy molds I owned for ten years. Geez Louise, when I write it like that, I wonder why in the world I waited that long to donate them.
I know why. It's because I
pause after deciding to get rid of an item, and go, "Well, I could make...." or "I could find someone who...." or "What if I want to.....later?"
Doubt creeps in. Plus, there is this nagging sense that I am losing part of my identity or something: I really want to be someone who knits. (But I am not.) Or I really want to be someone who makes chocolates for holiday parties. (I am not anymore.) Or I want to be the person who
makes that craft. (Sometimes, I am that person, and it is fun!)
Don't get me wrong. I do like to do some creative things. I used to think I wanted to make all my greeting cards. I enjoyed it here and there. I still might make more someday, but I won't keep a lot of supplies for it around.
Turns out it's the same story for my dear husband's soap making supplies:
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| Unopened. |
He is an artist and has dabbled in a lot of mediums, but he was ready to let this box go. We didn't let it go for a long time, and I respected his choice to keep it. Heck, there were even times I thought we might make some soap in the future. He agreed to letting this box go fairly readily. I just realized the box was sealed from the move to this house.....9 years ago. 9 years ago. Pretty sure about that one.
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| Why I have two cake covers is beyond me. |
So, that was too easy. I sensed it when I scanned the shelves for today's purge; this wasn't tough enough. Then, I looked more closely at these shelves:
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| What's going to go? No, not the Apple boxes. Yet. :) |
I found what I was looking for on the top shelf:
Here they are out of the boxes:
Lovely items. We even registered for the cross on our wedding registry - yikes! However, we would not go into a store and select the same cross today. How little I knew myself then.
I love tulips and have used this vase more than once, but it's time for it to go, too. I cannot keep heavy glass items out, and I will not be able to for some time due to young children. Safety first.
I just made the mistake of looking up the cross on eBay to see what it was going for: around $40. Now, I am feeling that familiar feeling of donation uncertainty, despite my deep dislike for the whole rigamarole of selling things online.
But, wait, you say! What about local garage-sale Facebook groups?
Yeah, I could test the sale waters there.
But you know what? This was a gift. It feels really distasteful to sell something that was given to me. Pay it forward. Let it go. Thanks for letting me get that out of my system.
Verdict: all of the above to the church charity shop (Relief.) When something's going to go, it needs to go now. Not wait in a holding pattern for a drop off or a post office trip. Who's got time for that? Wait, I could put the money from the sale into a special fund for my kids' homeschool books or special trip. No...no, still distasteful. Just let it go.
Man, that one crept up on me!
Did you have a tough time letting go of anything lately? How do you feel about my decision not to try and sell the more expensive items?
