The year I gave away our extra folding chairs, three of our cousins had to stand at Thanksgiving dinner.
They held their plates and ate by the kitchen counter. We all laughed about it. My husband still brings it up.
So I can’t tell you it never happens. You toss a thing, and then one day you need it. It happened to me.
But I can tell you what happened next. I walked next door and asked my neighbor if we could borrow her chairs, and she said yes.
That’s about the size of it, most of the time. What if I need it later? You find a way, and it’s usually much smaller than you feared.
Why This Fear Makes So Much Sense
You aren’t silly for feeling this way. Most of us grew up saving things because saving was smart.
My mother’s parents lived through the Great Depression. I wrote about what she saved in the thi