I don’t remember that. Goodbye!

There’s nothing like going through your stuff to confirm what delightful taste you have. Seriously — I’ve gone through boxes, and found things that made me think:"This is so cool! I forgot I even had it." And since it’s that cool, clearly it’s worth keeping, right?

Right?

But I’d forgotten I even had it. So I’m thinking that if my back had been turned, and it had been magically whisked off to, say, The Island For Really Cool Paper That Would Be Great For Making Stationary With Some Day, I would not have been wracked with remorse by its disappearance.

If you’re thinning your possessions, or cleaning to make more space, remember, there’s always more cool stuff out there. And if you forgot you had it, you weren’t that attached to it. Let it go!