Wednesday, November 10, 2010

De-cluttering your life

Ever look into the closet and see way too many clothes?  Clothes that are ill fitting, no doubt because they shrunk. Funny, huh?  Books on the bookshelf that you may have read and want to maybe re-read someday, or boxes of stuff in the garage, that should be sold in a yard sale or better yet, donated to the local church or non-profit.  We have too much stuff, cluttering up all nooks and crannies of our lives, being saved for a rainy day, I guess.  It feels SO GOOD to get rid of it, make more room for your family to spread out or even park the vehicle in the garage!
 I have been on a secret mission to de-clutter my life.  It I can't wear it anymore, or it isn't my style, I am going to sell it cheap on E-bay or donate it to the rag bag.  If I haven't read it yet, the church rummage sale will receive it in a donation and free up my packed full book shelf.  I can always use the library if I find time to read for pleasure.The nicknack's are a whole nother story and those dust collectors need to find some other place to collect dust, It is overwhelming to think of all the unnecessary material objects we feel the need to hoard.  Contrary to my mother's belief that you need 134 cool whip containers on hand at any given time, even though at Thanksgiving time for left over containers to go home with everyone, there is really no reason to keep all those cool whip containers on hand.  Then our children accumulate massive amounts of toys, that they spend more time tossing around the house then actually playing with them, so they really don't need but a tenth of what they have in their toy boxes. Maybe if they had less they would actually take care of what they had, you know appreciate it.
 Take a look around and see the collections of clutter you may have accumulated and take a refreshing load off and get rid of some of the clutter in your life.

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