Giving things away. Things with meaning.

I just happened upon this little article about "passing on" things that are part of our life story.
I thought I'd share it here.
My husband has just passed on some items of his mother's to family. She had already given many "life story pieces" away.
I saw this as decluttering as she was always quite "spare" and tidy - but now think maybe it was more than this.

Psychology says when people over 70 start giving things away — the china, the tools, the rings — they aren't decluttering; they've reached the stage where distributing proof of a life matters more than keeping it.

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