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?” […]
Staying Downsized: Always Having Just Enough
Originally posted on Sixtyandme.com Downsizing your home is one thing. Staying downsized is an entirely different thing. You’ve gone through the incredibly hard process of downsizing your house to a smaller place, maybe a much smaller place. You’ve moved, organized things, and figured out just where to put everything you took with you. And if […]
Who Gets to Decide?
Among the “knotty problems” we have right now is that of – Who gets what medicine? And who should pay for it? And should any medication cost $1,000 a day or $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment? (That is the often reported cost of Sovaldi, Gilead’s hepatitis C pill.) And if, as apparently is […]
What is the Sign of Enough?
A Beginning. . . . . Today I’m beginning this blog post because I can no longer not. My intention for it is for us over the next several months to explore the question “How will I know when I have enough?” And to have each of us wrestle with the question, along with others […]