How easy

[Spirit of Light]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

 

[Altfish]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

It depends. some things of minimal value are very important to me; by contrast things of much more monetary worth mean little to me.

 

[Vinayaka]

It's easy for me, but I do know pack rats. I'm like my father, he loved in a one bedroom house for 10 years at the end. We easily moved his entire collection of things to the local Goodwill, in the back seat of my car. Clothes, utensils, everything. I have nothing at all that I'm attached to. It's just stuff. You can't take it with you.

 

[YmirGF]

It's easy for me, but I do know pack rats. I'm like my father, he loved in a one bedroom house for 10 years at the end. We easily moved his entire collection of things to the local Goodwill, in the back seat of my car. Clothes, utensils, everything. I have nothing at all that I'm attached to. It's just stuff. You can't take it with you.

I'm largely like that too and to think my mom selected her most non-materialistic kid to sort through her affairs upon her death is an interesting choice. So far, I've begun weekly pilgrimages to the local recycle centre. They must like the quality of stuff I am taking them because I've noticed they greet me by name and often come out to see what I am bringing today. I love it because I am not just throwing things in the garbage.

In regards to the OP on attachment. I'm not big on attachment to begin with, and as long as you keep things in perspective, there is no reason why you cannot have objects of significance around you. So far, I'm saving anything I remember from my early childhood (There isn't much, really, as it was 60+ years ago now.)

 

[Fool]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao-Tzu

 

[Vinayaka]

I'm largely like that too and to think my mom selected her most non-materialistic kid to sort through her affairs upon her death is an interesting choice. So far, I've begun weekly pilgrimages to the local recycle centre. They must like the quality of stuff I am taking them because I've noticed they greet me by name and often come out to see what I am bringing today. I love it because I am not just throwing things in the garbage.

In regards to the OP on attachment. I'm not big on attachment to begin with, and as long as you keep things in perspective, there is no reason why you cannot have objects of significance around you. So far, I'm saving anything I remember from my early childhood (There isn't much, really, as it was 60+ years ago now.)

Your Mom made a wise choice. I have a cousin who not only has her own stuff, but also her mother's. It's all in boxes, taking up space. They kept everything, and the mother was a picture taker, and movie (reel to reel) maker.

 

[metis]

I have never been materialistic, even as a kid. As one who did lots of camping with tents and then a barely furnished pop-up camper, we learned to survive for a few weeks on very little, even without even a t.v., a radio, or even newspapers.

However, take me to a bookstore and watch me be like a pig in the mud.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

It probably makes me a weirdo - but almost nothing material I own is of any grand/permanent value to me. Those that are have sentimental value. The things I keep in my sock drawer - which include some high-quality prints/cuts of tarot cards my daughter and I designed/made together, some simple construction-paper "books" I made with my kids that have these ridiculously simple and humorous stories and illustrations in them, and drawings I did with my son when he was really young, where I had him draw a character or creature, and then I did my best to reproduce it in a more mature style of drawing.

As for the "stuff" I've bought - none of it really means anything, and I wouldn't be upset to lose any of it. I remember we had a garage fire at one point. It was certainly a shame that we had lost anything, but not even the loss of my workshop inside that had a couple of awesome pieces I had been working on made me flinch. I just shrugged my shoulders and moved on. Incredibly easy.

 

[Audie]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

Attached to "stuff" no. Certain items, of sentimental
value, of course I'd like to keep.

I have some really nice things, expensive, but
I could replace them easily, and I am not attached
to them.

I got to "peak stuff" far short of what it takes to
please others.

In the event, my sense of myself is not in what
I own.

What is meant by "happy: of course, may be
at issue here.

I wont be happy to go to an upscale event with
a Coach bag, say. That is when a Chanel mini
comes in handy.

Other than that, I am pretty indifferent.

 

[sun rise]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

Some stuff I'm attached to but most not very much. I used to be very attached to books but a while ago I realized that had mostly passed and well over 1/2 of my books went. So it's a bit selective.

 

[stvdv]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

I don't have stuff with sentimental value except maybe 5 fotographs when I was in India. I remember my 20 years up and down travelling to India. I just had 1 backpack when I was in India. And that felt great. Last 10 years living in 1 house in Holland I accumulated more than I enjoy. I have been thinking a few times to reduce it to 1 backpack and 1 bed again. But not managed to do that yet.

Less is More.

 

[savagewind]

How easy/hard is it for you to let go of your personal belongings?
The things you have bought over the years, would you be able to sell it all and be just as happy as you was before? or are you really attached to your stuff?

I can sell!

 

[savagewind]

But, if the question was if I can give it all away, I might change my mind.

 

[Spirit of Light]

But, if the question was if I can give it all away, I might change my mind.

What if you lost everything in one go. would you be able to stay calm in mind?

 

[savagewind]

I might need some of that stuff in case I need ten dollars sometime.

 

[Jainarayan]

There was a time when I was very attached to my personal belongings, but nowadays nowhere near what it was. I prefer to downscale and downsize to make life simple. Life isn't about inanimate objects.

 

[Spirit of Light]

There was a time when I was very attached to my personal belongings, but nowadays nowhere near what it was. I prefer to downscale and downsize to make life simple. Life isn't about inanimate objects.

Agree with you on that

 

[savagewind]

What if you lost everything in one go. would you be able to stay calm in mind?

Yes, and I might think of blessing God to have got rid of it all! Especially the god damn photo albums and stuff for it.

 

[savagewind]

My house was robbed once. It was a l...o....n...g time ago. It was even before I knew Jesus. But, I was calm. Sometimes, I think, I might be too calm.

 

[Spirit of Light]

My house was robbed once. It was a l...o....n...g time ago. It was even before I knew Jesus. But, I was calm. Sometimes, I think, I might be too calm.

one can not be to calm in my view