This seems like a silly thing to complain about, but for some reason I'm having trouble getting rid of my baby stuff for the "potential second." My partner and I are blessed to have one amazing child already (truly, an amazing kid and a total joy in our lives) who is already almost five years old. I know our kiddo would love a younger sibling and we've been talking about it but we haven't been able to go for it because a wide variety of reasons I won't get into here.

Even so, I need to free up some closet space and just lighten the load in terms of the stuff we have, especially because we need to renovate our house to sell it (it's not the right house for us long term, and it needs a lot of work before we sell it--we want to downsize into something smaller and I do NOT want to rent a storage shed under any circumstances.) So this decluttering summer, I've started getting rid of things I was saving for the "potential second." (Note: I'm not pregnant right now, and probably won't be anytime soon.) Things like a nice clean diaper genie I was storing in the closet, a diaper changing pad, cute clothes and baby toys. I'm having a really hard time with this. Each piece I get rid of, it sounds illogical but it feels like, "Well, I guess we'll never have another baby now for sure--just gave away the diaper genie."

Seeing myself write it out, I know how stupid it is, but for whatever reason it feels that way.

Has anyone ever had the experience with decluttering the "potential future child" stuff? And did it feel like some sort of decision that you were making against your will even?