Even the most organized people have some type of clutter in their homes. Often it is a result of allowing meaningless things to accumulate over time or from bringing something into the home without taking anything out.

Although eliminating this type of clutter takes some physical effort on your part, once you set your mind to it, it can be managed. Things you use regularly stay. Things you don't use go. It is a very simple formula.

But what if the things you are holding onto have sentimental value? How do you let go of something that holds deeper meaning?

Years ago, my mother gave me a wind up chiming clock that she had hanging in my childhood home. It was a nice enough clock and for years and I had it hanging in my own home. As time went on, I moved several times and the clock went with me. Eventually my decor changed and the clock stopped keeping proper time, but yet I held onto it in a box in my basement. I couldn't let myself get rid of it because it had been given to me by my mother. Even though I didn't have a place for it anymore and it wasn't functioning properly, I still clung to it.

Then one day it occurred to me. When my mother gave it to me, it was probably because she no longer had a use for it and thought that maybe I would. I did initially, but as time passed, I ended up in the same position she had been in... no longer needing the clock.

I have since realized something. Hanging on to items that hold sentimental value is fine as long as it is something that you will actually use (or display) and enjoy.

I have a friend who currently has a outside storage unit full of items that belonged to her mother that she acquired after her mother died. Do the items have use or value? Possibly. Do they have use or value to her? Clearly they do, but only on a sentimental level. Month after month she pays the storage unit fees to store items that she has no immediate use for all because they belonged to her mother. These items are all packed in boxes. She never even looks at them.

There is nothing wrong with hanging on to things that have sentimental value. I am certain that we all have possessions that fit into that category. The problems arise when our sentiments take over and we allow somebody else's clutter to become OUR clutter. Only keep the items that have the most value and use to you...and use/display them accordingly. Bid farewell to the rest. As far as the chiming clock, I had a friend of mine fix the clock mechanism and I then sold it to a very happy buyer at my last garage sale.

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