Urban Girl with a
Country Heart
Breaking Away From
The Emotional Ties
Recently, I made some goals for myself in my quest to become
an urban homesteader. The one that I started to tackle was the down sizing and reorganization
on my home and storage sheds. This has been an emotional and daunting task for
me because it’s many years of accumulated crap like how I cleaned up my choice
of word for all this stuff just for you folks reading this.
My goal is to try and get rid of stuff that I have that I
don’t use or just don’t like, break away from the emotional bond & guilt
that has prompted me to keep these items over the years when I truly had no use
for them or in some cases even like them. Just because some very dear and no
longer with us relatives used to own it or even my fear that what if I had to
buy it again but not have the money to replace it.
I started to think to myself these items have been in
storage out of sight out of mind but yet my dear loved ones still cross my mind
almost on a daily bases. So do I need these items to remember them by? When I
was honest with myself I said NO It’s HAS TO GO wow that was very empowering to
me.
With my new empowerment I was able to toss 3 bags of trash
and collected 3 boxes of stuff for a yard sale. I have set my yard sale date so
that will allow me to finish this job and collect more stuff. I have in mind if
for any reason I cancel my yard sale I will pack my boxes up and take them
straight to the local donation center.
So my tip of the day: If you do not use something get it out
of your home. You can even do the 3 & 6 month method. If you have not used
it in 3 months then pitch, if you are torn and don’t want to toss it out at the
3 months mark box it and reevaluate at 6 months at that point if you have not
used it or found a proper place for it then donate or yard sale it. So when loved ones pass and you find yourself
being given stuff so you can remember them ask yourself do I need it? Will I
use it? Do I really need this in my house to remember them by? After all keep
in mind you don’t want to be remembered by your loved ones as a hoarder in the
family, when they have to go through all your stuff.
I saw on a show where a lady put everything they owned into a room and only took out things as it was needed. Once it was removed from the room it didn't go back in the room it was put in its proper place. Then after 6 months she went into the room and purged some of the items that were not considered "seasonal". She said you don't realize how much JUNK you have and hold onto. I could not do this now as we have to much stuff to put into a room but on our next move I think I will give this a try b putting ALL the boxes into the garage and only taking things out of the box if they are actually needed that day. :)
ReplyDeleteThat would be very hard to do for us as well. but I have to say I am well on my way to purge our home. It's a long road but one that I know I will be glad to walked down when it's all done.
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