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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antidiem, post: 375581, member: 30&quot;]Thanks Fig! I loved this thread too! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":cat:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I was pleasantly surprised to see my old photo just above! The new owner has done a righteous job fixing it up! She raises Monarch Butterflies and has a butterfly garden growing in one of my old clawfoot tubs in the yard! So grateful to have found &quot;the right&quot; owner. --Why is that important when it comes to our stuff? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to gather too much stuff in my life and it&#039;s a good reminder to downsize appropriately. And often. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Reading what others are doing to downsize helps me. Please bring out your stories! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of mine: </p><p><br /></p><p>I have had some life expenses and my agent files the long tax forms for me. I found out I can take a tax deduction of about five bucks per book if they are new books, so that may be what happens to my entire collection of nice new books that I bought when I was younger to sell when I was older. It&#039;s really sad that books seem no longer to be in high demand. But by this method, I can about break even and help other new book sellers. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like to donate to a small local thrift that benefits animals. They don&#039;t write in the books and they sell them for cheap, like twenty five cents. They can certainly get more for nicer books though sometimes they have a sale for half price of twenty five cents. (I&#039;ve already given them back all of the books ever I bought from them!) So by this method I can benefit new sellers who have the motivation I once did and I will only handle my heavy books once more. </p><p><br /></p><p>I welcome suggestions on how others downsize. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie36" alt=":couchpotato:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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