Word prompt--DECISION
Five minutes to free-write about it
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Have any of you ever decided to declutter and then later regretted having gotten rid of some of the things you did?
I used to save cards, letters, kids' artwork and term papers, and such, and had three large boxes full. And then I got on the decluttering bandwagon and convinced myself I needed to go through these boxes and only save the things that meant the most. So I did, and pared them down to just half of one box so there would still be room for anything down the road I felt I really couldn't part with.
The same thing with my clothes. Anything in my closet I hadn't worn in over six months got donated to the thrift shop or to our church's clothing giveaway, for someone else to enjoy.
Why I decided to do these things, I do not know. It's not as though I live in a cluttered apartment, but it seemed like the thing to do.
Invariably though, there always seems to be something that I think of that I would like to wear that I haven't in a while, only to discover I no longer have it. And this morning, I thought of something I wanted to read that had once been in one of my boxes of mementos, only to realize it was something I had gotten rid of.
