173 days ago

How to Downsize Gifts and Heirlooms

Malvina Major Retirement Village

Welcome to the second of this series of articles dedicated to helping you to downsize, declutter and rightsize your life, brought to you by Ryman Healthcare in conjunction with organising and decluttering expert Peter Walsh.

This time we are tackling one of the more challenging aspects of downsizing – what to do with gifts and heirlooms. Whether you need to free up space in your own home or are helping someone else to downsize, this is a task that can feel daunting and emotionally charged.

Although it might be tempting to box everything up and hide it away to deal with another day, that just passes the problem down the road to your future self or to your family.

Fortunately, there are ways to downsize gifts and heirlooms that honour and remember the past whilst enabling you to rightsize your life for the present day.

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30 Years of Homes & Gardens

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4 days ago

What's On: THE WAIKANAE BEACH INDOOR MARKET

Gary from Waikanae

Enjoy a Sunday Family day out in Kapiti and visit this great Community Market which has highly talented stallholders showcasing a huge variety of quality, reasonably priced items/ GIFTS .
THE WAIKANAE BEACH INDOOR MARKET
  • Waikanae Beach Community Hall
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4 days ago

What's On: THE WAIKANAE BEACH INDOOR MARKET

Gary from Waikanae

Enjoy a Sunday Family day out in Kapiti and visit this great Community Market which has highly talented stallholders showcasing a huge variety of quality, reasonably priced items/ GIFTS .
THE WAIKANAE BEACH INDOOR MARKET
  • Waikanae Beach Community Hall