MEMORIES 📦 🎟 📺 🗝 📽 🎙

We all have those cardboard boxes 📦 in our attic, under our bed, may be at the bottom of the closet. Boxes stuffed with stuffs, your 10 year old self’s birthday gift, an old dress that never fits, old photos we never usually look back often, movies/travel tickets of your past favorite experiences. How often do we check those boxes? probably close to never. We collect these stuffs as a reminder of our special moments, as memories of our glorious days. Memories are part us and doesn't stay in those things! Probably the stuffs trigger our memory of the moment, but its creates a lot of clutter to your current life. This boils down to a materialistic life, where you find joy and memory in things and not in people/emotions. I don't need a baby food feeder to trigger memories of my mom's love, a warm from my mom can do that! Life is full of sentiments and emotions. We live for the people we love and we all have our living, walking, memories of love in front of us. Sorry for the lost ones but a picture of the person will bring back a whole lot of memories and emotions.

If some stuff brings you joy just by holding on to it, then you don’t need to get rid of them in the name of decluttering. You can find a creative way to commemorate them. Try this activity that I found helpful while decluttering my old pictures, hold on to one photo per memory and store the rest on to the cloud. By this way, you declutter the boxes of old photos but you can still hold on to the memories. This might reduce the emotional connection to the thing and increase the connection with the memories it carries.

Memories are not in things they are inside us. Understanding that and living accordingly will remove a lot of clutter in our lives!

Sorry if I had hurt the feelings of someone reading this. If you have a lot of stuff as memories and you do get a value out of it you are okay to keep it! That brings you joy and happiness that every one of us lives for.