What would make you get rid of everything you own? Or even a certain category of something like donating all your clothes or all your furniture? I'm not saying you can't replace these things. Maybe your style has changed or you're remodeling. I'm thinking there are a lot of reasons to get rid of things or replace them, but this could also be done in pretty extreme ways. I mean to get rid of all your clothes or even all your books something has to be going on internally for you to want to do this and then even follow through with doing it. What would cause you to let it all go?
Someone adopting a minimalist lifestyle (as a matter of philosophy?) might want to get rid of all extraneous "stuff." If it doesn't have a function, out it goes.
Buddhism (and similar religious/spiritual practices) Near death experience that gives them what they believe is a revelation that nothing matters except how we treat each other Moving from a large house you can no longer afford into a hovel on skid row Getting a job at an Antarctic research base (Mars base, etc) where you expect to be living for the foreseeable future Going to live among South Sea islanders to learn from their simple lifestyle Hitting your late 70's and your health is declining, so your son's family convinces you to move into their trailer in Florida, but can only offer you one small room (my neighbor did this) Life sentence in prison Deciding you want to spend the rest of your days traveling the world and living nomadically 12 step program for a recovering addict whose addiction was collecting, and one step is to get rid of it all Warning from your city or township that your hoarding is considered dangerous and won't be tolerated anymore Going on the lam/witness protection program etc (new identity, new life)
I've considering doing the same, both for simplification and, at my advanced age, I'm looking ahead and want to save my family a lot of the trouble of disposing of my 'stuff'. Most of what I have has value only to me.
Moving a long distance. It's often cheaper to replace things than to move them several hundred miles.
Maybe in a different era, when people didn't understand it and antibiotics didn't exist Scarlet fever is just strep with a rash. Take your amoxicillin and you'll be fine. No need to purge the house.
Thank goodness that's the era 'The Velveteen Rabbit' was set in. Otherwise millions of people might have missed the point.
Especially if you have to rent a uhaul to leave new York or California. Considering they have raised the rates to cover transporting the trucks back to those areas.
