33 Questions: Future & Regret

And it's like, but what if I need it? I'm just going to keep this just in case.

So here are some of the questions that we're going to go through.

Do you have a realistic plan to use this item in the future? That's tricky because often a lot of the items in our homes, we don't actually have a realistic plan.

We might have a formal dress.

I don't have a plan to use it.

So now I've really got to decide, am I going to keep it? You might have books that you haven't read.

You might have bedding that you have no realistic plan for.

So are you keeping like five additional pillows in the linen cupboard? Do you have an actual plan to use them in the future? You're like, yeah, I guess maybe if one of my kids has that many friends over, I would need that many pillows.

But you actually don't have a realistic plan to use it in the future.

Yeah.

If I needed this in the future, how easily would it be for me to access, borrow, rent or replace it? And so sometimes we keep really big items for like the what-ifs and then those situations don't eventuate and we're kind of scared to get rid of the item.

But if in your mind you're like, actually, it would be really easy for me to repurchase that item or use something instead of or borrow it, it can allow you that freedom to get rid of the item.

One thing that we did used to keep in our house was blow-up mattresses.

We had a queen blow-up mattress and two singles so that if we went camping, we could use them.

Or if the kids had a friend to stay overnight, we could always use them.

What we found is we decided we were no longer a camping family.

And so we got rid of a lot of our camping supplies.

We kept these air mattresses thinking like, but what if we need them? And the first one that was to go was our queen mattress because it took up so much space and we didn't have a lot of storage in our house.

And so it was not worth the space it was taking up.

So that went.

And then we realized that we didn't really need two single mattresses.

And so we got rid of one.

And what we found was that one was actually plenty.

It fit in my son's wardrobe in a box.

And so it just lives there.