Saving...

I'm a saver.  Not a saver of money necessarily, a saver of 'stuff'.

I now have to go through all of the 'stuff' that I have saved over the years and decide what I really want to keep.  I have things that I haven't seen in years, but the thought of getting rid of them makes me shake.  What if I NEED them someday?  What if I can never replace them?

How to determine if something is important?  Are there really guidelines for this?  I know they say if you haven't touched something in 6 months, you should get rid of it.  And what happens if 6 months from now, I find out that I needed what I disposed of?

I know that I definitely want to keep all my photos that I have taken ever since I became fascinated with the photographic image some 50 years ago.  Yes, I do have photos that old.  Do I really need to keep the 4 yearbooks from high school?  What if I want to spend a day reminiscing some day in the future?  Will I regret that I disposed of them as "unimportant"?


Of course I know that there are many things that I need to let go of - video games for a system that I no longer have, gadgets that have been purchased over the years that I really didn't need, have never used and most likely will never use in the future.

I have a full week, plus a day or two off, over the Christmas holiday.  Hopefully, I will be able to struggle with all the options for all this 'stuff' then.  Wish me luck.