Giving

Another benefit of purging is you get to be generous. The basic principle is if you have more than one, give the duplicates to someone who doesn't. If you have two potato mashers, give one away. Unless you don't have running water, you I don't need to keep Aunt Emma's, and both grandmother's potota mashers. Some people don't even use them anymore. Put it in a bag and donate to the blind or the veterans or better yet, ask a friend or a neighbor if they could use a potota masher. A similar priniciple that I use with my kids is what comes in, something goes out in it's place. Twice a year, before birthdays and Christmas, my kids go through their closets and donate clothes and toys to various charities. It makes their rooms easy to maintain. With just a few important things, they can usually get their entire room clean in10-15 minutes, instead of spending hours hoarding toys they have no interest in. It gives some other kid some great gifts that they might love.

Purging and giving, all part of letting go and trusting that when you need something you'll be able to obtain it is actually a kind of freedom. Even the very, very few times that I have given something away that I wanted later, I really haven't needed anything that didn't somehow work out.