 So this is Halloween nights the Saturday night before Halloween and If you can see this costume, I have a Hat an old-time hat. This is actually my grandfather's hat and my grandfather's tie and I'm holding a little magnifying glass which together Will tell you that I am a detective So this is my go-to Halloween costume. It's pretty basic stuff and I also in looking through at the last minute to find my Trench coat which would have completed the look I realized that I must have thrown it out During my summertime zeal for minimalism when I went through The sort and I must have thought. Oh, here's something that I am going to use once a year. Why don't I just? Get a better one next year. Well, but here it is and At the time when it would have been useful. I don't have it. So there's always gonna be something When when you do a decluttering when you pursue minimalism, there's always gonna be a Regret there's gonna be something there because we cannot make perfect decisions and in order to Get the overall benefit of the clearance we have to be willing to throw away things that are in the maybe column As when when you do this kind of decluttering kind of kind of a sore to have the things that you know For sure you're gonna keep and you have the things that yeah, you're quite comfortable with throwing away but then there's so many so many items that get stuck in this middle pile and If you kept all of them, then you might barely make a dent So this is part of the price that I'm paying and I imagine if I really wanted to avoid decluttering and I Wanted to really I really wanted to hold on to my stuff. I could use this as a Warning that oh look what happens when you don't keep Everything that you might possibly need at some point in the future You may run into a time when you are missing that thing that you would like to use And So that's that's true So this is a counter example But I show it because It's the first Time that I really regret Having thrown something away during the summertime tour of all my Accumulations that saw me removing about a third to a half of all my stuff This is the first time that I really felt well, you know, I I really Could have been happy to have kept it And you know, we're we can be influenced by the size of containers at the time I had a bin that was used for like old for old clothing and Various things I rarely wear and the old sheets and towels and things like that and at the time it was Stuffed full So then it was an easier decision to Well, I'll say okay this trench coat that has no use except in this once of your costume Okay, this can go But now that bin is no longer full because a whole set of sheets had been passed on So now it seems like oh that would have been Completely fine to have kept that item So But that's the decision we make and when when you're going through a Sort it is just so many decisions going rapid fire and you just can't make perfect decisions When it comes to this stuff and it's okay to air a bit on the side of throwing away too much because almost nothing is missed and Then I compare this to in the month since the summer when I did this is it was really in June and July and it's now October All the benefits I've had from the greater cleared space and the cleared mental space I benefited from Getting closer to simplicity removing distractions that Take me further away from a good life by just sort of wrapping me up in unnecessary Filler But for everything that we do We always have to pay the price some kind of price So for tonight, I will be a detective without a trench coat post script back from the Halloween party and Yeah, I really didn't miss that trench coat would have taken it off any way to just dancing in this shirt so I really didn't need that trench coat and It's okay that it was donated on to someone else to be of use So it's all okay