Why You Slowly Start Wanting Less Stuff After 60 — And What to Let Go of First

Go to your kitchen and open the cupboard above your refrigerator. The high one, the one you need a step stool or a chair to reach. Don't take anything out yet. Just open the door and look. Now ask yourself one question: when did I last use anything in there? If you're like most of us, the honest answer is "I don't remember," and some of what's up there you couldn't name if I paid you. That cupboard is where we'll begin today, my dear, because it's the best example I know of what I want to talk about. Before we're done, you'll know why you've started looking at your own house differently after 60, why that feeling is wisdom and not sadness, and exactly which six things to let go of first, in the right order, so you don't burn out on the second afternoon with a box of old photographs in your lap.