For the past five or six years, I’ve become a maniac about letting go of physical stuff. If I no longer use it, I’m all about finding a new home for it, whether it’s donating it to Salvation Army, giving it to a willing recipient, or selling it in yard sales.

I began this practice after reading that it’s spiritually beneficial to “live simply”…something that’s primarily taught through the practice of letting go of our attachment to things.

Prior being exposed to the idea of living simply, I thought about the act of getting rid of something as one sided (me losing something). Definitely ego-based thinking.

However, in learning more about living simply, I was invigorated by the idea of  letting things go as a way of “breathing new life into them” by allowing someone else to benefit from their use (especially if they’d been dormant in my closet or packed away in a box).

To this day, it’s what spurs me to “cut deeper” when it comes to going through stuff. In fact, it’s turned a once sprawling DVD collection into a shortlist of “go-to” movies and an overflowing …

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