Over 50? List of Things You Don't Need Anymore Getty Images Once you hit 50, there's no need to get that family size pack of paper towels. In your secret soul, do you harbor a belief that bigger is more? That more is better? Does something deep down cry out for family size, even though the as a candidate's eyes? Take yourself by the hand, and turn away from the habits of a lifetime, in favor of a new life. Take the shackles from your wallet and the shades from your eyes and repeat with joy: I'm not paying for economy size anymore! It's not economical to buy a bag of chocolate chips that can make enough cookies to stock all the airline lounges in the Western Hemisphere until 2014. It's not to have more trash barrels than the doggy day care.

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– Receive access to exclusive information, benefits and discounts. Let someone else do it. Let someone else clean it. Let someone else make the payments. Let it go. Here's to no more … more. Give it up: 1. The three-dozen-egg carton, the 2,000-pack of Sweet'N Low and the Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar-size ketchup. 2. (no one in the minivan to take the last handful, or take the edge off the guilt). 3. The minivan. How about a snazzy car, , even a wiseguy car? 4. A brand-new model four-over-four house — even on the golf course. Even if your kids live next door. Especially if your kids live next door. 5. A one-horse open sleigh. Yes, you've been meaning to get the horse but … 6. A Costco membership. You'll never need that many paper towels, unless you run a car wash. You'll never need that much toilet paper unless you run … out.

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Get on travel, shopping and more 7. The gym ultra-membership. How about the dog, the shoes, the SPF 50 and the open road? 8. Those seven, nine or 20 unfinished quilts and birdhouses. 9. All those teaspoons, fruit spoons, salt spoons, cheese knives, crab picks and lobster crackers liberated from the restaurant along with the extra lemon, the fistful of sugar bags, the basket of rolls. Next page: 10. Fourteen matching place settings … 14 unmatched place settings are more fun, funky and functional. 11. Just one extra shot — tequila, espresso, . 12. Your very own chickens (really, really not). 13. Four-inch heels for the wedding reception. 14. Another cat. 15. Another hat. 16. . 17. A bigger flat screen. 18. A bigger boat. 19. A bigger mortgage. 20. More than 700 channels in one night. 21. More than 700 calories in one hand. 22. Double cheese. 23. 3-D. 24. Four-wheelers. 25. Quintuplets. is the best-selling author of 21 books. Her newest, Second Nature, comes out this month.

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