# Proper way to remove MovieClips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/proper-way-to-remove-movieclips/302594
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/proper-way-to-remove-movieclips/302594 "2010-01-04T02:18:33Z")
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### Author: ![Nick23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@Nick23](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nick23)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/proper-way-to-remove-movieclips/302594/1 "2010-01-04T02:18:33Z")

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I’ve seen a lot about removing movie clips and I finally want to settle this. What is the proper way to remove a Movie Clip from memory?

Right now what I’m doing is:

```auto
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, step);
this.parent.removeChild(this);

```

This is for an instance with 2 private variables and 2 methods (one of which is step). I saw some things about using something = null; and delete something; as well.