Something else I changed was that I used to keep everything in their boxes, or keep the boxes for things as if one day I might need to sell them because they weren't really mine.
I mentally didn't own those things, I was some kind of caretaker for them.
e.g. I have tons of Wedgwood baubles for the Christmas tree which used to take up a massive box to store.
Threw away all the boxes and bought one hard plastic storage box for them so they now take up loads less space.
Same with my massive Willow Tree Christmas Nativity set, countless boxes for fish knives, Cake servers etc..
I got them all out of the boxes, threw the boxes away and literally gained back square metres of my home.
The cutlery now lives in the kitchen drawer and get used all the time, so if I get a sudden impulse to bake a cake it will get put on my everyday (used to be for best) cake plate with a nice glass dome on it, then I grab my fancy cake knife and flanged cake server and put it on my nice plates.
The Nativity set gets put in one big sturdy box which takes up less than 10% of the space it used to need, perfume is now just a bottle on the side I'm going to use, not in a box with the ribbon put back around it wrapped in the special tissue paper in the special gift bag and so on.
I even took the tags off clothes I had been waiting for 'best' to wear.
I get so much joy getting out the treasures to hang on the tree every Christmas and it's actually easier now they aren't in massive boxes.
When they were put away for best, getting those things out was a chore which made it harder to actually use them, so I was less likely to do it.
Once they were out in normal use, I finally felt like all those things were really mine in a way I hadn't felt before and I really started to enjoy using them.
I found I felt like a person who used those things as normal.
Instead of worrying about things, I enjoyed using them.
My recycling bin looked insane for a couple of weeks with all the special boxes and brands in it, but it was mentally freeing to treat my own possessions as if they were just my possessions, not obligations to pass on.
I unexpectedly started to lose my sight a few years back and I now have very little of it left.
It made me even more happy I was using those things, because I did it at a time I could see everything well enough to know how nice they looked.
I have to admit, when time came to use them, some of the things I'd been saving for best I didn't even like that much so I had got rid of those.
Giving up waiting for best was one of the most freeing things I ever did.
You never know what the future will hold, so you might as well go into it wearing your favourite earrings, smelling great with moisturised hands and a nice outfit, drinking the good coffee/tea from your best cup.