Ever since I started my {super long} unorganized to organized project, I've gotten pretty good at getting rid of old stuff that doesn't serve me anymore but two weekends ago it made me quite {humorously} sad to get rid of my old tv to free up some space in my room. Perhaps, I was sad because I've had it for 18+ yrs and it still works {RCA is the way to go}, or maybe it was the vivid memory of how super duper excited I was to get it on Christmas as a young girl or maybe it was just knowing now as an adult that my parents used their hard earned cash to buy it for me just to make me happy on Christmas. I'm not sure exactly but I was filled with a bunch of emotions. It's funny how we have such strong emotional ties to some of our things. Some people can look at some of our things and think that's trash, throw it away but to us some of those things hold very special and dear memories. It may sound silly but it's so true. Emotional ties can keep us bonded to stuff we don't need.
I use to work for a moving company. We didn't move heavy stuff. We just unpacked or packed people's stuff when they moved or when they were doing renovations to their home. I would unpack people's stuff and put it away so easily, without a second thought. I would also easily pack up people stuff. My boss use to say that it was because we were not emotionally tied to their stuff like they were. Those words ring so true for me now a days. When it comes to my stuff, I get stuck getting everything organized and in its place because there are so many things I can't decide on whether I should keep or throw away or where it should go.
That's probably why it's taken me awhile to finish this organizing project but I am not giving up. I'm going to keep going and keep the bigger picture in mind: that it is okay to let go of some of my stuff because none of it can go to heaven with me anyway. That was what I kept in mind when I finally gave away my tv. It was time, time to say goodbye not just to my tv but to my emotional ties to my tv. So I said adios to this tv and donated it to Kiwanis in hopes that they will find a good home for it and not just go straight into the dumpster-I still had the remote, so there is hope that someone might make good use of it:
