Cute Ugly Dolls Sent to Garbage With My Love
April 14th, 2008
I was looking in the linen closet downstairs thinking I wanted to get in there and organize some things. What I really want to do is get rid of some of the sheets as I have too many and someone else might as well be using them.
On the top shelf was a checkered blue bag. I took it down and looked inside. There were doll clothes and a really old orange (ugly) apron my aunt had made eons ago. (I’m not even sure it was my aunt). I had no attachment to it.
At first I thought I ‘should’ keep the apron and then realized I didn’t want to so it went into the donation bag. (Always keep a donation bag going). And then the doll clothes from the bag I was folding neatly —I have no idea if the doll they belong to even exists any more. I stopped, realizing those could be donated too. Yeah for me! I did it.
The last thing in the bag were these cute little salt dough ‘dolls’. For years I have held on to them because my daughter who is now in her 30’s made it when she was in pre-school and I just had to keep it. You will be proud of me—I took my own advice and took a picture and threw them away. The next day I remembered I needed to send the photo via email to Costco so I could put it in my photo album. I didn’t do it!
I hadn’t remembered I even had the dolls and it doesn’t matter if I have that memory. There are so many more things worth remembering in the last 30 plus years of her life. I feel such freedom that I let it go. What do you have in your closets you can just let go of? Tell all please.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I have a linen closet which has a variety of “stuff”. My problem is using up the creams, shampoos, make-up, and even some items not used yet and the question is….will I ever use it? I have extra linen and towells that other people could use…so, your article has inspired me to take out the stuff, a shelf at a time and really let go a lot of usued, unwanted now, stuff. thanks
April 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Edna, You made my day, I am happy I inspired you. If you haven’t used your creams in six months throw them out. In the last issue of Real Simple magazine they have a good article on expiration dates on cosmetics. I was looking for the page number, but the entire magazine is so good, just read everything.