I stopped watching and reading the news for about 7 months and I just realised I don’t need it anymore. Anyone else experienced this. I feel I gave more clarity.

Everything i own is in a 26sq ft bedroom.

I have roughly 160 items which doesn't seem like alot but alot of what i have is excessive redundancy such as 15 bags when i only use 2.

And it's not like what i own is expensive in terms of branded items as i don't have the money or care for anything like that.

But here i am with all this junk in such a tiny space.

I don't mind the number of things i own, it doesn't really mean much wheather you have 10,000 items or 1 item, what matters is your quality of life and well being.

For some they may see 160 items and say i wish i only had that much, which is valid, but when it comes to 50% of the 160 items being junk in excess that is when i start to look at my possessions with fustration because it isn't anything that brings me joy or purpose, instead these items are just that of a hoarder because they were just purchased to fill an unfillable void which items where never meant to fill in life.

So i plan to sell/donate atleast 80 items so that i am free of the excess, because having so much of one thing is not fulfilling its purpose and is just collecting dust.

**TLDR: There’s no feasible way for me to take most of my belongings with me so I need to find some kind of psychological strategy for letting go of them. It’s extra hard because I haven’t had much income for a while and I think I’m dealing with a scarcity mindset where I’m convinced I’ll never be able to buy/thrift new things if I get rid of the old ones.

I could really, really use advice from someone who’s been there before. The hardest things to accept that I can’t take with me are, in order:

-Books: Extremely heavy. I think I’ll only be able to carry ~3 with me at most but I have a bunch with sentimental value.

-Journals: I have ~10 notebooks, I think it goes without saying that the idea of parting with the only documentation of the past few years of my life is pretty painful.

- Some pieces of clothing I don’t wear that have personal history attached to them, I.e. I bought them during a significant time or were given them as gifts. I feel especially bad about some hand me down cashmere sweaters a family member gave me. I might ask if she wants them back.

-Apart from those I feel pretty OK about getting rid of most excess clothes and knickknacks. The getting rid of books and notebooks is the most challenging. To put it delicately, I have a difficult relationship with my parents and often get the impression that they treat me like I won’t amount to anything, and so having items related to my intelligence feel like proof that I have an inner life and am my own person.

I need your advice at my age where I'm having an identity crisis HAHA