“It’s a sunk cost. Falling in love with what you have and reminding yourself of what it cost you is no help at all.” from Seth Godin’s “The market for used eclipse sunglasses”
I know I paid a lot for this
I love it but it’s time to move it on.
I can’t find a buyer for it!
How can that be?
We assume what we value
will always have a place,
our sense of order intertwined
with things staying the same.
But the the world’s fickle, and
even as we cling to the meaning and
worth we’ve assigned to our precious things
we find the world doesn’t share our assessment
leaving us a little bit disconcerted as we
realize our carefully constructed
world of what matters is just that
…ours LOL!
As I processed my parent’s things following their deaths, I made three piles of stuff which had been kept over 100 years: Keep it. Burn it. Throw it away. The best part happened when a millionaire next door neighbor came and picked thru the pile of “keep it” during the night and then I had to recover my stuff from his storage barn the next day. One person’s junk is another person treasure.
I’ve had my precious things in storage for 4 years now! I’m living life fine without them, it’s lovely living simple. I gave away so much of my stuff that I had worked hard to get, loved, used…it’s all gone now. That’s ok with me. Sometimes I see a piece of furniture or something I held dear in the homes of one of my friends. I feel a warm place in my heart. I’m glad my friend likes it. I’m glad it’s no longer mine to think about, dust, move, or put into storage. Even when I have my own home again, it will be simple, small and uncluttered.
Love this, Barbara…. and so true.