u/Suitable_Pianist_103

I kept so many journals and filled them completely. I had dozens from 1996-2020. I traveled a lot and had a job that I thought was interesting and would make for good reading for my kids.

I just found the box of them while doing some decluttering. I read them all, ripped out a few entries (9/11 and other historic moments), took a few pics of funny things for me but not worth saving for the kids, and then burned the rest in a fire pit. So cathartic.

It was an interesting trip down memory lane, but 99% of it I would be mortified if my kids read it. Especially the middle school crushes 😂

I am being *ruthless* in my decluttering before our move to a bigger place. I don’t want to fill the extra square footage just because it’s there. I’m dreaming of a clean, simple, peaceful home. But to my loved ones, more square footage means more storage space for all the stuff.

The main battle was to not get rid of kitchen things even if I’m not using them because we’ll have a spot to use them in the next place. But I don’t want to fill the cupboards of stuff we don’t use so I ignored them and got rid of it anyway.

The current battle is over a kitchen playset my kids got for Christmas. In the past 6 months, my kids have played with it twice and barely even then. They prefer playing with the accessories to the actual kitchen. So I am planning on selling the playset for cheap to someone who will actually use it rather than moving it to the new place just because. We’ll keep all the accessories they love and just get rid of the bulky playset. My extended family is freaking out saying I’m taking minimalism too far in tossing out toys. They’ll store them in their home for us, etc etc. but to me that just seems like I’ll be decluttering it for them later.

My husband agrees with me and I’m trying to follow my gut, but the disapproval is really making me second guess some of my choices. I worry I’m going overboard.

ETA: I ended up getting rid of the playset and gave the money we got for it to my kids to buy themselves a treat. And to answer the recurring question about why I involved my extended family — I didn’t intentionally. It comes up when they try to offer us stuff, and the playset was a side comment from myself in casual convo bc we found someone who wanted to buy it. I didn’t expect such a strong response from them. Not sharing anything going forward unless it affects them directly.

I was always the little girl daydreaming about my wedding. I loved going through my mom’s wedding keepsakes.

I am happily married, but got married during Covid. It was a good day, but not a great day. My closest friends and a lot of important family members were not there. A lot of things went wrong in the lead up to it, and I honestly don’t even like looking at the pictures because it makes me sad still.

I’m keeping my pictures, a copy of my program, and my dress (I wear it every anniversary). But I also have a big keepsake box full of things like my custom Covid mask, a sampling of my favors like hand sanitizer and other uniquely Covid things, and things like that.

I kept it thinking ahead to my own kids wanting to go through it like I did with my mom’s stuff, but I honestly hate thinking about anything from 2020. Am I going to someday regret tossing it all?

I have been gaining and losing the same 10 pounds for *years* no matter how hard I tried to simply eat less, move more through willpower alone.

I was so resistant to trying Zepbound. I was convinced it was dangerous. I wanted to prove I could do it on my own, but I couldn’t.

I’m now in the 200s for the first time since before COVID. Down 54 pounds since starting the shots in February.

Forever grateful for this medicine for giving me my life back.