moving my accumulated stuff back / ownership versus child-me the thief

[belenen]

icon: "gamine (a photo of me as a seven-year-old child, freckled with frizzy hair and a solemn expression, leaning against a tree)"So Topaz is moving from the place they have lived the entire time I have known them, which is reminiscent of me moving because I spend probably a good half of my free time (or more) at their house. We have already taken

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[stormdog]

I feel exactly that way about my book.

I have so many boxes of books right now that I'm not using and will likely not read many of again and I feel like I should donate them, or at least sell them to a used book store. But then I think of the way I grew up, with so many books around, and I want my children to have that experience too. But I don't know if I'm going to have any children, so I don't know if it makes sense to keep them. And when I think about them, I feel bad about how they're sitting unused.

[belenen]

Well, do you intend to have children? Are they books you could replace in 10 years from used stock? do you have a good local library?

I was raised in a house that didn't own many books I found at all interesting, but my parents took me to the library every 2 weeks for most of my childhood. I think if you can find the book at your local library, it would be fine to give it up. If most of your books are hard to find, I would hold on to them until you know.

[lostincandyrain]

I feel a similar way about things, that they should be loved. But I also feel like I love a lot of things that I don't use, and even someone who used them would probably not love them as much as I do, because I have memories of how I got them, or when I read them attached to them that make me happy to see them, even if I don't open them...

I fall in love with things way too easily. ;)

[belenen]

I also fall in love with things easily. One way I use to determine how much I love them is "would I feel sad if I lost this?" becauae there are things I love that I wouldn't necessarily miss, even though I enjoy their company.