I have always been someone who finds it very hard to throw away or donate things that are still in good working order or were purchased relatively recently, but which I don’t love (I know, I know, spark joy, whatever). But these days, everything I touch or look at has me thinking, toss? donate? sell? pack away? I mean, I don’t want to end up packing tons of stuff, but at the same time, if something still works, why would I pitch it? So this has created a new mindset: two days ago I dropped a vase and it broke. And today a perfectly good but much too cumbersome umbrella broke a rib. And both times my very first thought was, “Yippee, now I can throw this out.”
Just another way to downsize!