# How did your home living situation change as you got into your senior years **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-home-living-situation-change-as-you-got-into-your-senior-years/1022398 "2025-08-22T16:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-home-living-situation-change-as-you-got-into-your-senior-years/1022398/27 "2025-08-24T14:29:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Divesting myself of all the stuff was _incredibly_ stressful, but now that it’s done, I don’t miss the burden of all those possessions. I did not find it emotionally stressful. Just a lot of work & hassle. Which is what led me to my advice of dripping it out slowly and steadily, not waiting until an impending move forced a mad slapdash 24/7 flail to dispose of stuff. It takes all kinds. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Except my books. 😭 I’ll probably never recover from the loss of all the books I had to leave behind when I moved into the city in 2012. I hope I get to see them again one day in heaven… ⛅ Late wife and I used to sorta collect books. Or rather gather books; there was no curation & no “complete the set” thinking. At one point we realized we owned 1000 books we had never read and in all likelihood would never read. Books were a religious talisman for a life of erudition we were not actually living, just pretending to hope to someday live. They all disappeared without a tear the next week. They then represented folly & hubris in the buying, not learning in the (non)reading. IMO most human folly is a reasonable behavioral response to false, ignorant, or wishful thinking. Purge the false thinking and the false behaviors fall away effortlessly. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-home-living-situation-change-as-you-got-into-your-senior-years/1022398)._