You can gain time and energy in your life by spending a few minutes a day making your life
easier. Downsizing your life a little at a time will lower stress and bring you a sense of
satisfaction.
Downsizing? There are times in life when you need to get rid of
things. Things that clutter your life. Things that no longer have value to you and your
family.
We all have a tendency to collect more than we really need. Some collector to the extent
that we have a totally cluttered life. Others have a neat life, but still have more than
they need stored away.
Once a year we shouldgo through our closets, garages, dresser
drawers and boxes stashed in the attic and clean out.
There is a saying, "Get rid of what
you do not want to make room for what you do want." Follow this advice, and find your
life less cluttered..
Collecting too many things begin to weight our lives down with so much stuff that we
cannot get our from under it. If you have to make isles in your garage or storage shed to
get to things or worse yet, you have to make isles inside your home to get to things, you
need to make a decision to start sorting through your belongings and get rid of things you
KNOW you will never use again.
Do you save clothes in hope of returning to the size you were
when you stored them? This clothing can add up to boxes and boxes of things that will be
out of style by the time you actually can wear them again.
You local charities can use donations of clothing. They can use
good clothes to sell in their thrift shop and to help clothe the needy. They can even use
holey and moth eaten clothing which they bale and send off as rags.
Maybe you have boxes or cabinets with mismatched dishes. How
about old silverware and utensils you no longer use. Put them all in the donation box.
Have you been saving books and magazines that you plan to read or
re-read some time in the future. If you have not read them in the last three years, do you
really think you will read then in the next three? It is unlikely. I know you are saving
many of them as references. With the Internet, you have all the reference material you
will ever need right at your fingertips. Get rid of books and magazines. Put them in the
donation box.
If you really cannot stand to give things away because it all has
value, have a garage sale. Make it a challenge to have tons of stuff at your sale. When it
is over, take whatever does not sell and donate it to a charity. Promise yourself you will
get rid of the leftovers.
To sum up clutter, it robs valuable time from your life. It
takes away some of your life energy and makes you wonder how you will ever organize it
all. Do not organize it all; get rid of a lot of it.
You can often save money by spending $3 at the store rather than
spending three hours looking for something you know you have, but cannot find. You end up
buying the lost item anyway.
Get rid of what you do not want to make room for what you
do want!
