tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30975557.post5344365157485557095..comments2024-03-28T15:20:19.629-07:00Comments on View from the Cottage: Downsizing: to keep or discard?Judy Alterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05147106159914535549noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30975557.post-70536960620302751102016-08-26T21:27:14.306-07:002016-08-26T21:27:14.306-07:00Wow! You really made a dramatic move. I'm jus...Wow! You really made a dramatic move. I'm just going from the main house to the guest house, and I'm fortunate that my children want the things I can't keep. Thanks for the encouragement.<br />judyalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767466505891813090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30975557.post-35851501983155114632016-08-26T21:22:47.114-07:002016-08-26T21:22:47.114-07:00Oh Judy, your move reminds me of mine, from the Ea...Oh Judy, your move reminds me of mine, from the East Coast of England to the very South of India - from a huge!!! Victorian house (1867) and.....it was very very hard to weed out the things which shold come with me or not. OK, some I gave away to friends, to Charity Shops but the rest......oh what the heck, we loaded into 2 vast containers and brought it here - and glad we are! So many memories - I love to be surrounded by things which are precious to me. This does not mean everything has to have a high commercial value attached, oh no, often the smallest items, like pebbles from our beach just a few yards away (we took a box for our plants on the terraces here). The only sad thing was, that a few of my antique furnitures and china got damaged and the heat is not helping either much. So, hang on to your beautiful furniture!!!! You will find a space, I am sure - and go on enjoying them.Carina Sebastinehttp://anyone4curryandotherthings.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30975557.post-57681189207309366942016-08-24T20:13:48.025-07:002016-08-24T20:13:48.025-07:00Nice to know a fellow sentimentalist.Nice to know a fellow sentimentalist.judyalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767466505891813090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30975557.post-19150838790780217232016-08-24T20:08:53.668-07:002016-08-24T20:08:53.668-07:00Keep them, objects are not always just things when...Keep them, objects are not always just things when they invoke sweet memories. I have a Cowrie shell my Friend Dennis gave me 50 years ago when we were boys, it not only reminds me of him but it also reminds me of me as a boy. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09044107923534611824noreply@blogger.com