Getting rid?

Nothing.

As I contemplate moving, I am facing up to the fact that I'll be chucking a bunch of old LP's that I could make a few decent dollars on. I just don't want to hassle with the whole selling them trip, so I'll probably drop off 95% of them at Goodwill. I'll keep the fairly rare Rolling Stones action cover album. Last time I checked, it was worth around $400. Yeah, so then, whoever cleans out my house, after I'm gone, can chuck it! Funny, how things like that go......
 
I have to go through my stuff and get rid of all the things I don't use. And in truth, most of it is junk that I have been hiding in closets and drawers. LIke the 20 million pens that don't write. Or the all tees & jeans that I can only wear around the house. I have stuff like that tee with the huge letters "Intercourse" for Intercourse, PA:) If I got rid of all the junk (yup, it IS really junk), I could find stuff and everything wouldn't be crammed into things. But I'll do that tomorrow.
 
Nothing so far and I have been working on downsizing for almost a year now. Something from the attic and the shed, and my closet every day. We are still moving forward toward moving to an apartment in a senior living community in a couple of years. Getting rid of the junk was easy, getting rid of the good stuff is much harder and a bit expensive if I decide that I need to mail it to someone. Shipping my motorcycle to my daughter in Rhode Island was very expensive.
I don't really regard everything I own as being totally mine, even if I bought it. In some cases it may have historical value or be completely unreplaceable. Some things have increased in value to the point that my adult children or grandchildren would never be able to afford them if they could even find them. Parts of the world that I went to during my 31 years in the Navy are not accessible any more, and I did pick up quite a few very nice items like pearls from Japan, ebony carvings from Africa and gem stones from South America, gold items from the middle east, and jade from China. In these cases, I am simply the custodian and am morally obligated to ship the item to a deserving relative. Deciding who to give them to is the hard part, but my wife and I need to get this done while we are the deciders. I am rather sensitive to this since my father did such a poor job of hanging on to artifacts from the 1920's and from WWII. He had some very unique items from the Battle of Okinawa and the Japanese surrender.
I think we will be working on this for months to come.
Oh, I do regret giving my Granddaughter a South African Kuggerand a few years ago. It appears that she sold it and used it to buy drugs when she went off the "deep end." She is still not back to being normal.
 
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