I have now officially lived in my house longer than I have ever lived any one place. Going on nine years.
And the corollary of that is--we have accumulated TOO MUCH STUFF.
There was an old saying in the Army, when we were moving our family around the wold..."Three moves equals a fire." That meant that there would be damage, theft, loss, and things that just plain disappeared. Very little of my early life survives the multiple "fires" of moving.
But just like a brush fire clears undergrowth and allows new things to germinate, a move also clears junk.
And I haven't moved in a long time. I'm not a hoarder, but whoa, Nelly, I have too much stuff. The temptation is to get a place to store it.
No.
I am also conscious that with stuff, comes the noise of the mind. And that clutter needs to go away, too. My friend Maggie teaches Transcendental Meditation, which helps with the clutter of the mind--but you have to allow it to sort your internal closets for a while to release the noise.
Today I will spend some time in silence, and allow the stress to sort itself out. And I will actively clean one more cabinet, closet or shelf. Daily, until I have cleaned out some of the clutter on both levels.
What's the smallest thing you will do today to declutter?
I threw away a napkin on my desk at work.
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