Cleaning & Organizing
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Getting rid of gifts.
Okay, how do you detach yourself from sentimental things? I have a basket full of gifts from my birthmom since we reunited a few years ago, and I'd really like to get rid of some of it as it's taking up a LOT of space and while I really appreciate the gifts, a lot of it is cheap plush holiday items and other stuff that I really have no use for. I just feel terrible tossing it, but some of it should go. My exroomie/MOH told me that she's never held on to stuff like this and that it's made to be tossed... I just don't know!
Re: Getting rid of gifts.
This exactly.
take pictures.
that's what i do with my kid's artwork... i can't keep it all - but can take a pic of it all and then i'm never without it
Everyone else had great suggestions.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, I have no problem getting rid of gifts if I feel like they're just clutter/we won't use them. My aunt, who I love DEARLY, loves to go kind of crazy with my daughter and me for Christmas (she has three sons and three grandsons, so we're like the daughter/granddaughter she never had, LOL). She is so sweet and thoughtful, but gets a lot of stuff (for example, Christmas salt and pepper shakers) that I just won't use and have no need for. Those go straight into the donation bin.
I like the idea of taking pictures of things. That way, you'll always have the memory of it.
Think of it this way (this is what I have often told my past clients when trying to help them purge) ~ the memory isn't in the THING, it's in your head. Getting rid of the thing doesn't mean you're getting rid of the memory.