I am in the process of downsizing.  I want to retire soon, & aim to minimize my expenses.  My house is~ & always has been~ too big for me.  I have three bedrooms; I sleep in one & the others are full of stuff I’ve kept simply because I have a place to put it.

I am on a medical leave of absense to recover from knee replacement surgery, so I’m limited as to the amount of physical work I can do.  But it easy to sit around, sorting through stuff.  My current goal is to jettison at least a third of my thousands of books, & half my extensive wardrobe.  As I sort, I lecture myself about how much fatter my savings account would be if I hadn’t bought ‘catch me, catch me’ shoes for "just in case", an expensive astrology book when I haven’t cast a chart in over a decade, etc.

 I don’t need all this stuff; there is no reason for me to keep it.