Emotional hooks.
Big barbed hooks.
Stuff that when we went through it the first and second time was still too hard to deal with and so got put aside for later.
You know that sentiment... I'll deal with that later. We can manage to delay later indefinately if we try hard enough. I am determinded to not just leave it that way. So I am making myself face a little each week.
The fabric that I blogged about the other day has all gone now. I gave some to a friend and the rest to another friend who is part of a group that does knitting and sewing for Brisbane's needy. So at least it has gone to a good cause. It actually felt good today when I walked into the sewing room and it was empty. It is the actual getting it out and making the decision to part with it that is the hardest part.
I still don't have an answer for the emotional hooks. I keep asking myself all the practical questions:
Do I love it?
Is it useful or beautiful?
Did I chose to bring it into my life?
Do I need to it save it for tax or legal reasons?
If I needed it again later could I replace it?
If I were free from guilt would I keep it? - this is a very good question.
Have I used it in the last year? The last five years?
Does it fit with the vision of the life i want to lead?
These questions help to a large degree - they are not magic and it is still hard to actually part with the stuff with emotional hooks. Once they are out of my life however it definately is better. It feels better and the emotional load gets a little lighter.
I have to keep reminding myself of this fact.
Today's challenge is dealing with a large pile of scrapbooking magazines.
As you can see many are still in their packaging, which confirms to me that I have lost interest in them. I used to open then and pour over them marking ideas and making notes of things that I could apply to my own scrapping. Now I just let them sit. I don't get excited by them. Mostly I just feel overwhelmed and pressured. I have opted to avoid it by not even taking them out of the wrapping. yeah I know, it doesn't avoid anything really.
I tried selling them on eBay. Even with them as a bargain, I didn't even get one watcher and no sale. A friend has a stall at a flea market in a ccouple of weeks and I will be helping her so I will try putting them in a crate and offering them for $1 each. If that doesn't move them then I guess I can drop them off at a charity.
I have to keep reminding myself of all of the reasons to not keeep them and it is better to not even see them. Perhaps I would be better off to just drop them off at charity now. Hmm I'll box them up and put them aside so I don't have to see them until the market. yeay me. No guilt allowed.
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I wish my pile was that small...lol. I sold a whole bunch(42) to a 2nd hand store for a $1 each. The rest I'm not sure what to do with, a friend suggested I take photo's of the layouts I like and then give them away and call it a day.
Hi Gee, the sad part of my confession here is that before we moved last July we had a garage sale and I sold over 150 magazines (craft, scrapping, patchwork, embroidery). These are the ones that were either current then or have arrived since.
This is why I don't buy magazines. They accumulate.
150...!!!! I now have some sorting to do. If I close my eyes tight do you think they will disappear when I open them again..lol.
Could you donate them to a local hospital? I recently spent 3 weeks in hospital and I probably would have gone mad if it weren't for the volunteers who brought around donated magazines each day for me to read. It was a lovely distraction for me, and so now I donate all my mags to the hospital. Not that I buy them, I get them from my MIL when she finishes with them!
I find "giving up" craft/gardening magazines really difficult but they sit on the book shelf and don't get used very often. The info that I want is probably more up to date and interesting on the web anyway... I think I'll go through my magazines too before we move up to the house. Thanks for the prompt.
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