Decluttering

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” ~William James

Summer is almost here. Many schools have already finished for the year and many more will do so in the next couple of weeks. Because of our change of routine during the summer months it’s natural to not want to have too many projects left incomplete.

During the winter and spring I usually have many projects that I want to get done. I’m sure you do too. After all isn’t that what Spring Cleaning is all about?

When we have too many unfinished projects/tasks they clutter our minds with guilt. …

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A neighbor down the street just put their house up for sale. The past few weeks on trash day there have been piles of junk to be picked up.

My sister-in-law decided to move and has talked about all the trash they are getting rid of in order to put their house up for sale. Every time I’ve been to her house it looks like it could be in a magazine. Apparently she has stored a lot in the basement.

Anyway, this has got me thinking about what I would keep and what I would get rid of when the time comes for me to move. It also has me thinking about why we keep the junk and trash in our current home but are not wanting to move it to our new home.

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When most people think about having a garage sale they start seeing in their mind all those dollar signs.  So they gather up their unused items and slap price tags on them.  Since they paid good money for the item they feel other people should be willing to pay a reasonable amount for it.

But what’s reasonable to the seller is not usually reasonable to the buyer. …

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