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Enhancing MidlifeEnhancing Midlife - by Geraldine
Decluttering my life
Yes, I do admit to being a hoarder and yes I do still have favourite books and toys my children loved and yes my youngest is 25 and yes they don’t want them, but I just can’t quite bring myself to throw them away. So they are packed away in a box and never looked at. I think this hoarding thing started with my mother (doesn’t everything?). Anyway, when I was 4 year old I contracted a very bad case of Chicken Pox and my father decided to cheer me up by buying me a Walkie Talkie doll. We had no money and I don’t know what he had to sacrifice to get it for me. I was so excited when he gave it to me. Thought I was the bees knees. However, this is where the problem with my mother started. I also had a much loved doll called Mary Lou who had had a very rough life and she was held together with sellotape plastered over her numerous cuts to stop the kapok stuffing coming out of her. I played with my brand new doll all day, but when it was time to go to bed there was no Mary Lou! I was devastated. Mum in her infinite wisdom (not a hoarder obviously) had thrown her out in the rubbish. Poor Mum, I don’t think I ever forgave her! I finally gave up the Walkie Talkie doll 30 years later to my cleaner’s daughter who didn’t have a doll but I have to admit there have been times when I regretted doing that too! Anyway, back to decluttering. more.....
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