Thanks, Gracie and others for your advice. Just resting after an hour of shredding documents that are quite old but needs to be shredded. Two more weeks to D-day. A couple of my friends also offered similar advice. Both of them said Give Away, Throw Away, Donate Away and once you do that you won't regret that you don't have them any more. My major problem was with LPs, CDs and books. I got rid of hundreds of CDs for about a quarter to fifty cents each to a retail store. They just came and took four boxes filled with CDs at $60 a box. Once it's gone, I guess I am o.k. with it. At least I have all the songs are stored in my I-Pod. LPs, they were selective so I still have hundreds of LPs left which will go to United Christian Ministry. Many of the LPs, I also was able to load the songs to my I-Pod. Books are another matter. I gave most of it away to a church for their Christmas book sales and also to a library. As I love to read and they are mostly non fictions, I just can't give any more away. This morning I went through a fourth run of selecting more books and selected about a half dozen again but,I still want to bring the rest Florida. I have read them once but my wife says will you read them again? To which I say ah...ah.... She thinks it's my identity associated with the books and she is right on. While I can't get rid of more books, she can't get rid of many dishes, cups etc. She can easily get rid of all the cook books she owned with ease. She did invite few friends and sold them dirt cheap but guess she is bringing the rest to Florida. It's strange since she graduated from entertaining and also mentioned that she will only cook when she feels like it. There is no way she is going to use all those dishes and cups etc. but I am not saying anything. You learn from experience. We also got rid of so many furnitures by selling them for a song or giving them away. I agree here that less clutter, the better. I also noticed that she has so many paintings in her collection. There is no way she can hang all the paintings she has. I jokingly said whether she is going to change art works like museums. I think that's her intent. Again, I am not saying anything. So the rumble continues.
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