“We are wasting so much money and so much energy keeping this stuff.” “Someone out there can use this… way more than I will.” This was the logical thinking that worked for me to take the emotion out: What really helped me purge our goods was thinking about the consequences of how less things would make our life better. Here are our top tips and resources to help you unclutter your life, to regain control of your house and your possessions: Once the initial uncluttering of our life was over, it was very easy to maintain and live more consciously, making better choices about what we should be buying and why we are buying it.
Three years later, we feel lighter, more in control of our money and belongings, and the pride in living with less. AND I can assure you, any effort to do this is totally worth it.
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I learned a lot about purging and how to unclutter our own life.
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We had full control, fully conscious of what we owned and what we bought because we yearned for a life of more flexibility and more travel. At that time, we decided to put our life into our own driver’s seat. And l was my mother’s daughter, I also owned WAY TOO MUCH stuff, packed tightly in every nook and cranny of our home. Over three years ago, we got rid of everything we owned. Oddly, this stuff wasn’t even mine, and all these things weren’t even moving to my house!īecause I was re-living the overwhelm of all these things weighing me down.Įven though I no longer have a home or a permanent place to live, the feeling of losing control of your stuff still hurts. Sure, I was physically tired, but it was the mental exhaustion from the overwhelm of being surrounded by all this stuff. This was way too much stuff for a single person, let alone an entire family to use or appreciate in a lifetime. With every piece of silverware, crystal, plastic container, and the dust-covered ceramic French onion soup bowl set I put into a box, I felt anxiety and a certain tightness in my chest. Even though my mother downsized and moved two years earlier, this was still an enormous job. It was ten hours into packing up the last box from my mom’s house before the movers arrived to lift everything into the moving van. Unclutter Your Life:Tips to regain control of your house
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