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I was unpacking my sewing machine,  wondering if I’ll ever want to find time to use it again and I remembered that I bought it with the proceeds of a cashed in life insurance policy at a time when I realized I had made an error of judgment by failing to get enough life insurance quotes and information before committing to a policy I could not afford, so I ended up forfeiting half of what I had paid, when I cashed it in, and that was  my lump sum that bought my great Bernina sewing machine and now it's just one more posesion I have little use for, as I love our downsized lifestyle.

I started downsizing posessions almost six years ago,  begining with swapping my career as an artist to a hobby business, as I became carer for Reg and we downsized tools of trade, selling the pottery studio equipment and picture framing work shop and the art gallery.  I just have our simple home and caravan possesions, the remains of my art and craft supplies, and this, my ‘might use one day’, sewing machine left from our years of accululating possesions.

It was almost three years ago that I realized the downsizing needed to include, 'me', and we also decided to downsize from a bricks and mortar home into our caravan, towing car and simple country reteat.  I am very happy with what we have achieved doing this dramatic downsize, I don’t need all the possessions we had once and I love that our caravan is now parked, packed ready to go, outside our home and I love that I have downsized from size 22  to 24 to a size 12 to14 .

I’m holding a garage sale this Saturday, a little more downsizing.

The rule that I apply to everything in my home now, is, it has to be beautiful or useful and preferably both for me to keep it and I only purchase items I actually need.  LOL, now 'need', that's an interesting word isn't it?  Can I justify that I still need to own roses, wisteria, iris, day lillies and lilium? :-).  Need is an individual thing.   LOL, just as well I see the dog and the man as having both the qualities of beauty and usefulness so they are on the keep list along with both being needed so they would even meet the new criteria for added on possessions, :-), they are safely part of this downsized lifestyle I love. J
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