Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "" video.

I've been thinking about the last sentence in your comment. If you need an object to have a memory maybe you could use a blank book or have a computer file in which you record the memory that goes with the object and then give the object away if there's no other reason for keeping it. Too I'd like to offer this idea: if you have to have an object or item to keep the memory associated with it, maybe that memory isn't so important anymore and it might be time to be more involved with the present and create new memories.
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With me it's books. I have the conflict of having so many books that they cause me stress but I really want to read them before I give them away---and I'm a slow reader! I've had some purges in the past when I gave away books I hadn't even read and once I started the process it wasn't all that difficult. I may be doing that again soon. Apart from books and having a lot of pens that I find at the university where I work I would be considered a minimalist.
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If they're not text books the books you have in storage could go to library sales, thrift shops, fundraising book sales, Little Free Libraries. An earlier comment suggested selling the National Geographic magazines. Maybe you could get a small amount for certain issues but based on my experience of many years of working for Red Cross and library sales I would suggest just discarding or recycling the Geographics.
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