Originally posted on Sixtyandme.com What’s Good About Downsizing Your Home? It Could Be Getting to Enough. As my regular readers know, last year I went through a major downsizing of my large home and moved into a very small apartment. It was hard. At times, very hard. I even wrote a book about it called […]
The Hardest Part of Downsizing: Letting Go of Treasured Things
Originally posted on Sixtyandme.com The Hardest Part of Downsizing: Letting Go of Treasured Things The question I hear most often when I’m talking with people who are in the middle of a major downsizing or are getting ready to downsize is, “How can I get rid of things that are very, very important to me?” […]
Downsizing Your Home is Easier When You’re Facing the Right Direction
Originally posted on www.sixtyandme.com Over the weekend, I was riding my bike to one of my favorite coffee shops, which is only about 10 miles away, so it’s usually an easy ride. But on this day, the wind was blowing “like spit,” as my grandmother used to say. (Do you ever think about things people […]
Reevaluating What’s Important as You Downsize Your Home
Last year I went through a major downsizing of my home. Are you preparing to do this? Are you thinking it may soon be time? For many of us, going through this process can be difficult and even painful at times. It certainly was for me, as I’ve discussed in my book The Upside of […]
Is This Enough? Is This?
I have written before about the outrageous salaries being paid to some of those in charge of large public companies and the impact on our society as a whole caused by the disparity between their pay and those of the workers within those companies. In the May 28, 2017, issue of The New York Times, […]
Is My Stuff Part of Me?
I’m in the middle of what feels like a huge downsizing (more on that another time). If anything brings into sharp focus the question we ask ourselves when working with the Sign of Enough– “How will I know when I have enough?” — it is going through a huge downsizing. What I recommend to everyone, […]