Have you ever gotten the urge to purge things from your life…people, things that no longer bring you joy or have just been sitting in a closet collecting dust?

The past few weeks I have done just that and honestly it is still a work in progress. I went through so many things…all while taking a trip down memory lane. You would be surprised the stuff you come across when you finally start going through it.

Many items just went to the garbage; others were donated to those that could put it to good use.

I found old poetry that I had written back when I was in my early twenties…man I was full of angst back then. I came across an old Newspaper from an Nsync concert that I attended in 2001; I kept that.

Anyone else have a collection of Birthday Cards? I had so many cards that had been collected over the years. They had come from family, old coworkers, old friends. I kept the ones that still had meaning and got rid of the rest. It is not to say that those cards that were disposed of didn’t hold meaning at one time, it just means that they don’t hold meaning currently and it seemed silly to continue to hold on to them when that was not going to change.

There were CDs and DVDs. I can’t remember the last time I popped a Cd in; cars don’t even come with cd players anymore. On top of DVDs, when nowadays you can just stream everything and own a digital copy if you want to purchase. All of these items just taken up precious space.

It was cathartic to let stuff go, in a way freeing. Freeing myself from things that no longer held space in my life and opening it up to things that truly bring me joy.