Do you have the habit to collect useless objects believing that one day (you don’t know when)…you are going to need them?
Do you have the habit to to save clothes, shoes, furniture, gadgets at home that you have not used in a long time?
And within you… Do you have the habit to keep resentment, sadness, fear, or hate?
Don’t you ever do that! It goes against your prosperity.
It is necessary that you leave an empty space for new things to come into your life
It is imperative that you discard anything helpless within you and in your life for prosperity to arrive.
The power of that emptiness is what will absorb and attract all you wish
As long as you are material and emotionally carrying old and useless feelings you will not have space for new opportunities.
Things need to circulate; clean closets, cabinets, shelves, garage, help those in need and donate everything you do not use anymore. Remember that what is trash for one person, is someone else's treasure
The attitude to save a bunch of needless items only chains your life. It is not the objects accumulated what stalls your progress, but the meaning and attitude to pack and save “for a rainy day.” When you save, you are considering the possibility of need, of future lack. The believe that tomorrow you will not have a way to cover your needs. With that idea in mind you are sending two messages to your brain and life:
You do not trust the future and you think that the new and better are not for you. That is why you cheer up saving old and useless things.
Discard what lost its color and brightness, let new and better things enter your house and persona
Back in 1987 I relocated to Paris, France and I had to leave behind a four bedroom house. cars, motorcycle, and a multitude of belongings and properties. I was forced to condense my life to three suitcases that I was allowed to carry on board of a plane along with my purse. I had to be very selective during a painful process, but I learned the hard way that we don’t really need too many things for our daily existence. I took my manuscripts, books, photographs, important documents, camera, toiletries, a few clothes, and a small number of objects of sentimental value. I helped and made many people happy and never truly needed all those items from the world I left behind.
By the time I moved to Germany the process was much easier and so on with every new relocation
Everything is easier to clean and organize without excess of property and when we go camping we only take what will sustain us in our trek; food, tent, sleeping bag, and few utensils. Mother Nature provides the decoration, what makes us realize that the majority of the items that we fill a house with are frivolous things which temporarily and incidentally make our life more palatable. Set yourself free and simplify your life with less “dust collectors.”
Inside your heart… make peace with yourself and leave behind all those negative issues from the past that no-one can change and open a new chapter in your life.
That is why, after reading this essay...don't save it. Share it, make it circulate, so the prosperity and peace may soon come to you and your loved ones
Don’t be a pack rat!
Author Ingrid I. Holm-Garibay
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I know how that feels to leave thing behind, you love and even think that you would need them. But, as you have, Igrid, we don't really need everything, we had before.
ReplyDeleteWe left Germany and had to leave nearly everything behind. only pictures and books and clothing we took with us coming to New Zealand. and here, after living 18 year we moved again. This time to Australia. Left lots of thing in New Zealand again. But i have to tell you, these book we took from Germany we still have. But again, they are very old now and they are in German. Most educational books, about Men in there early development, about the cosmos, the stars, univers, about airplanes, about horses about Animals. They still would be right for today. But, as i said, they are in Geman.
So i think, since they take a lot of space in our shelfs, i think we finalle have to lete them go.
What do you think, Ingrid?
Have a wonderful day
Gigi
Dear Gigi,
ReplyDeleteThe new way to keep valuable books, photos, and objects of sentimental value when time for relocation comes is digitally. I have taken the time to scan most os my photographs since my early days as a journalist into a USB port of 32 gigabites.
The same can be done with books, documents that are necessary and meaningful and not only for travel convenience, but because computers can crash or get stolen. Having your precious manuscripts and books backed-up in a CD or flash point is an insurance policy.
Just like you, I still have original photos from my grandparents and parents taken with Leica cameras and lenses from Germany and I try to preserve them along with books as much as possible. I live in a cozy, small studio apartment in Las Vegas, NV and I have no intention to move anymore unless is absolutely necessary, I live happy here and I can go on vacations everywhere.
If I could afford it, I would love to spend the summer in Hamburg and the winter in Vegas, but now with the Euro as a currency in Deutschland is very hard and expensive.
Gutten Nacht
Dear Ingrid,
ReplyDeleteThank you, Yes, we have scant and even took photos from all our old photos, and put them on a disk. They are save now. But i think, with the books, they are so much outdated, i don't think we will do that. It's only good to have them. Some are still from my father. he passed away now 30 years ego. It's a memory from him.
And we won't move again too, only if we ever have to, because we would loose our house here. But we do everythign to avoid that. Albert is now Self emploid. It helps, but he needs work now.
Have a wonderful day and i love it to talk to you. Ever will come over here, down under?
Love
Gigi