The OW Factor
suzanneOur house is now 3 trash bags of donations lighter 👍🏻
It's not really noticeable but I'm pleased anyway 😄
Grow with Mama KKSimplify Saturday: Remove What’s Draining Your Peace
Sometimes peace begins with subtraction, not addition. This Simplify Saturday reflection invites you to remove one source of stress, noise, or unnecessary pressure from your life. Discover how one small release can create more room for clarity, calm, and the kind of peace your heart has been needing.
Svenja KünstlerHeute habe ich es endlich zum Oxfamshop geschafft und die Bücher, Kleidung und ein paar kleine Haushaltsgegenstände abgegeben, die ich vor einigen Wochen aussortiert habe. Einen Hoodie wollten sie nicht haben. Das kann ich gut verstehen, wenn sie ihn jetzt nicht loswerden. #decluttering
GiselleMore #decluttering done over the week that my house mates were away on holiday. I noticed that I put out a fresh bag for recycling. I've only gone and filled it before they came back! That's a nice amount to get rid off. I also added some fabrics and a couple of clothing items to another bag, but I haven't taken that to the clothing bin just yet. Will do soon though.
So I think I've done well. I still have waaayyy too much stuff of course. The process continues!
So I think I've done well. I still have waaayyy too much stuff of course. The process continues!
...maybe more like Michelangelo carving David from a block of stone. The more dried up onion layers I discard the more the things that I really like, that are me, are getting the space they deserve. In proportion to all the excessive, unwanted items, the loved things begin to feel more present.
Sometimes it's difficult to tell which group an item belongs to, like the pretty placemats, but once I decide to get rid, the sheer relief I feel proves it was the right decision.
As I'm struggling with way too much stuff that built up over several decades, I feel more and more that the process of #decluttering is all about liberation. You throw off the weight of things you left behind but didn't get out of the house. Stuff that slowly lost appeal and the potential we saw in them. It's about letting go of dreams too, or ideas about who I would become. And it's about discarding aspirational items that were never me, or my style. Like peeling an onion, or maybe more...
About my #decluttering progress. I can't believe how many remnants and small bits of fabric I had kept because I thought I'd somehow use them (hadn't, in years). The small bits for patchwork but I already made a big quilt so would I really want to make something similar? I already have a quilt and you can't sell them for enough money to make the work worthwhile.
I chucked two full bags of fabric into textile recycling. I'm so proud of myself.
I chucked two full bags of fabric into textile recycling. I'm so proud of myself.
I haven't quite finished my first pass through all my fabrics yet but I already have two and a half bags for the textile recycling container. Hoping to carry those there immediately after work. What's left the house can leave my head space and give me a touch more breathing space.
I should be able to find more stuff at the next pass - I get as many of those as I want.
My yarn is now bagged up in those vacuum storage bags, it looks weird. But takes up noticeably less space.