Give Clutter Free Gifts

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Christmas treeOver the years I have written several blog posts with ideas for clutter free or almost clutter free gifts for Hanukkah and Christmas.  Since my  mother and mother-in-law had mentioned years ago that they didn’t need or want  more things to fill their homes I’ve done plenty of research to come up with different ideas.

When my mother was moved to a nursing home in 2014 and we had to go through her entire house to sell it, I was glad she told us not to get her more “things”.  She did not have a lot of clutter laying around but there was still plenty of stuff to go through in a her three bedroom home. She has since passed away but I still have some things to go through. …

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The Holiday Season Will Be Here Before You Know It!

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Wild turkeys

It’s already September.  The holiday season will be here before you know it.

Last week I was walking in my subdivision and in the fields at the end of one of the streets I saw a flock of wild turkeys.  I zoomed in the best I could with my cellphone.  Those turkeys got me thinking about the upcoming holidays.

So I figured it was time to get started with the planning.

“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” ~ H. Stanley Judd

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What Value Does An Item Have?

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It's not what you look at - quote

What kind of value do you put on the things you own?

  • Sentimental
  • Practical/Useful
  • Emotional
  • Monetary

If you don’t know what kind of value you put on an item you may be keeping many things that don’t add to your life and make it better.  That’s what creates clutter.

It’s hard to let go of things when we put unrealistic values on them.

So how do you know if the value you place on an item is unrealistic or not? …

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Let Go Of Things The Easy Way

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It’s hard to let go of things. If it was easy we wouldn’t have a clutter problem.

So what makes it so hard?

One thing – Emotions!

We let our emotions do our thinking for us.  And as most of us know our emotions can’t always be trusted to make clear and easy decisions.

Our emotions usually want to claim an item as being much more important than it really is.  It wants to attach itself to the item and hold on for dear life. …

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