Do your possessions mean a lot to you?

Not referring to your abode or your car, but your “stuff” – your knick knacks, your books, your kitchenware (fancy plates, perhaps, or stuff for your table), your photos and printed art, your tools, things people gave you, or does it all mean very little to you and you’d not think twice about leaving it behind or giving it away?

This question came to me because I’m in the process of packing up stuff in my living room so that I can paint it and put a new floor down, and fix it up. As I was packing up the knick knacks that I have in a glassed-in case, I was thinking about how much they mean to me. Some are things my grandmother had, or my mother had, or things I was given as a child, or collected. I have a few handmade things that good friends made me, like crocheted blankets and things like that. I also have a lot of books, the majority which I could get rid of without thinking twice, but some from my childhood mean a lot to me.

I’m nostalgic about a lot of my stuff. There are things that were gotten rid of as I grew up, that I wish I still had. Sometimes I wish I didn’t care so much about a lot of my stuff, which would make it easier for me to get rid of it.

Some people own little or they may not be nostalgic about their stuff.

How about you? Do you really value any of your possessions or is it disposable, to you? Are there things you own that you collected or that were gifts, that you really cherish?