A Mantra for Moving

I have realized that I have accumulated so much stuff the past four years... it's insane. I don't know how I will get everything I want out to the East Coast. All the stuff sitting in my parents' garage right now has led me to think about big of a consumer society we live in. No matter how I try, I always seem to end up with more possessions. Now that I am starting my nomadic lifestyle, consisting of not knowing how long I will stay in one location (although it may be dictated by my apartment leases, but even then...), I really want to minimize all my "stuff." But at the same time, there are things I'm unwilling to just give up easily. For example: the picture I bought at Art Fair On The Square this year, the picture I took of the Nile Rive at sunrise last summer that is nicely framed, 2 ceramic bowls that I love. So do you let go of possessions you love and do these possessions REALLY matter? The answer, of course, is yes, you can let go of those possessions and they really don't matter in the end. It's just hard. But my new goal IS to rid myself of my habits of hoarding everything, keeping everything, and wanting everything. Less is better. I really need to start living by that statement if I want to prevent myself from going broke due to shipping all my stuff everywhere.

So... new mantra: LESS IS BETTER.