Postby blessedw2 » Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:20 am
I have been reading Peter walsh's book on downsizing and he puts things into different categories - for people who don't want to leave everything for their kids to have to deal with things.
1. "Memory clutter" - keeping what is important instead of everything - honouring it.
2. "I might need it one day clutter"
3. " Malignant clutter - takes us to a more negative time. Maybe trauma in our past" (gives us negative thoughts when we think of it)
4. "lazy clutter - things we can't get on top of"
for me I am adding:
Who am I now clutter. Am i keeping things of who I was or what my plans were. *
* this is the hard stuff for me. I had so many plans for my home that I have not done and I have to let that go. I have fabric etc. that was from the past and not now. I have been so busy in the last 30 years that I haven't had time to do stuff .... I over-goaled on dreams for my house instead of acting on them. I had too much stuff, too many things I was busy with (some important - some not). My goal is to move forward to who I am now. (and let go of things I did in place of what I really wanted to do - I made myself busy instead of getting things done that I wanted. it's okay- that's the past). I have to learn to let that go and not look at them as failures.
Actually looking forward to this as it will be a good time for growth.
it is always a joy to be here with you!