Letting Go of Guilt Clutter: Is Your Home a Museum?

Warning:   This is a touchy subject if you have recently experienced the loss of a loved one;  please come back to this post after the healing process is complete.

Has your home become a museum?  Your home is filled with memorabilia and relics of loved ones whom have passed on.  This is the toughest are for letting go of clutter.  Many people live by the rule that we should hang onto the inherited items.    You might be feeling guilty for even considering letting go of these items.  This post will cover getting over the guilt, financial valuable items, and what to do with these items.

Letting go of clutter to live your life.
Remember you are living your life.  Your Aunt Jane’s life was not and is not yours.   She may have left her most prized possessions, not necessarily yours.   Your home is to reflect who you are and what you value.   Overcome guilt by asking  yourself:   What’s my life about? What do I value?   Now it’s time to move onto what to do with these items that don’t reflect who we are as a person.

But it’s worth money…
Letting go of clutter containing a significant financial value serving you no purpose; can serve others.  Instead of allowing these items to clutter up your home, consider selling or donating them to charity.   Your loved one may have left them to you because of the financial value that they carry.  Sell the item, invest the money into something that you value.   This was left to you because they wanted you to have something to grow.  So what about those items that aren’t so valuable in monetary terms?

What to do with the rest
Ask yourself this question, as you rummage through memorabilia:  what purpose doe this serve my life?   For these items with a purpose, you can keep.  Only if you replace with the one you currently have.  The items serving no purpose in our life, you can donate, hold a rummage sale, or give them away to someone you know that will absolutely adore them.

Letting go of clutter need not filled with guilt.   Your loved one’s don’t want to drain your livelihood by cluttering up your life.  They want you to you be and live your best life.

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