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DeCluttering: Inspiration, Success Stories, Tips
Meh:
I went to an estate sale today of someone who I think became elderly and her family had to move her or something to a different location. There were over-priced tresures of hers. Things I should like. Lots of yarn for knitting etc. It's really just the trinkets she amassed.
The estate sale happened to randomly be ON THE WAY to a storage unit I was going to check out. Online the mini-unit said it was $30 a month. When I got there the staff person at the desk told me there was a fee for starting it and an insurance fee etc. and it would be $100 a month in reality. Bleh.
Basically, if you have the PLACE and SPACE for stuff you are using then I guess keep it and use it before you're too old to use it anymore.
I'm just shaking my head. I don't want to de-clutter. Like I just don't want to sort through my stuff one more time and not NOW.
Do I need this? I might.
Next thing. Do I need this? I might.
Okay do I want to pay $100 to store this thing for one month. No, not really. Will I? Ugh. will I though?
Hopalong:
I share the UGH, Meh. It hurts to pay for stuff storage.
Something that really really stuck with me from one simple-living book I read is that if you keep something because you MIGHT, in a low-percentage circumstance, be able to find a use for it in an undefined future, means it costs you twice:
--thinking about it is a brain drain
--not really having a clear purpose or regular use for it is a brain drain
--just owning more than you can fit in an easy footprint is a STRESS
--add cost to it? Ugh.
Extra unimportant stuff is like a phantom appliance that just sucks down bits of your energy, even unconsciously. Extra stuff = stress, is what it boiled down to.
I'm still fighting it but completely believe that. I want peace more than convenience.
hang in there
Hops
Meh:
Went to another yard sale today out of boredom, stress, procrastination, curiosity.
She had lots and lots of tablecloths. LOTS of them. She sewed so she collected all this vintage fabric.
Again I bought nothing.
Looking at all the "treasures" other people have hoarded that they CAN'T!!! possibly use. It does inspire me a bit.
Perhaps she sewed some great things. I bet she probably did. Still TONS and TONS of tablecloths.
Looking at stuff and thinking yeah that is some great vintage stuff and I don't need it perhaps helps me to know even more that NOTHING I own matters that much. It's a matter of purpose and use and that is it.
Hopalong:
That is a liberating leap of faith, imo, Meh.
For me, it's like reminding myself that I WILL BE OKAY (without thing X). Subliminally, anyway. Thing X, Y, Z doesn't cushion me from anything that'll happen anyway, and meanwhile it makes my life simpler and gentler not to add them into my living space.
Woo hoo. Spring helps me, too. With windows open and fresh scents insisting on spring no matter where I am, easier to shed stuff.
hugs
Hops
Meh:
I think when a person is staring at the stuff it makes it harder. If you were to go on vacation for 1-2 months would you even miss your stuff? I don't because I guess I all I have is junk, plastic speakers, some stinky shoes. Some too expensive text books that are worthless in reality and a bother to resell.
As long as a person has food, can get warm, can get clean and bathed, can sleep and get rest then these things are the basics. Mostly what I do at home is cook, sleep, wash my hair, turn my computer on.
To each his own.
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