January10 Still Full of Memories

January is the season on "resolutions" for some and "cleaning out" for others - perhaps depending on your season of life.  I'm in the latter and was determined to "trim down" my holiday decoration stash before putting it away. I was determined to reduce the stash to 1 box. Getting rid of the broken down garland on the porch, held together with string and a prayer was the easiest part, or so I thought. They were lovely, but probably dated if I am being honest. Yet, they reminded me of that Inn.......

An hour or so later, I was left with 2 strings of lights that each half worked. This was the way it had been for a long time and getting rid of them would mean replacing them in order to decorate a tree in the future. I was also left with 2 dark red balls purchased at a going out of business sale of some department store many, many years ago. They were special as they were the first purchased decorations for our tree.  Up until then, I made decorations out of paper, felt, and foil. Sigh.  Last up were 2 homemade decorations featuring the glued together likenesses of Care Bears from their first visit to stores, long ago.  They were pretty strange looking even when they were new, long ago!\

In the end, I kept the garland, lights, balls, and bears even though each was worn out, broken down, and looking a bit ragged around the edges, for now.  "They are a lot like me," I thought as I put 2 boxes away again, "worn, but still full of memories."