Less is More

Have you ever had one of those days where you look around and wonder why the hell there's so much $hi! laying around the house?  I mean, how does one family acquire so much stuff?  This was the first day that I had off since the kids have been in school, and I literally spent the day getting rid of stuff.

I stumbled upon this website last week and sat for almost two hours going over post after post.  It's certainly a commitment to a different way of life, and while I'm not sure I'm at that point yet, I do believe there is something I can take away from there.  If anything I felt better just by reading all the different posts about how people had changed their lives and were so much happier without all that STUFF.  Plus it inspired me to clean out my closet, which I hadn't done in almost two years.

Let me tell you how many things I haven't worn in two years.

I tried not to think too much about why I don't wear them any more (my dryer shrunk them all!), and I just piled them up and kept only the things I wear every week.  If I didn't wear it in the last six months, it was out.  Oddly enough, once I got started, I couldn't stop.  I almost went through Toby's stuff, but he would find that one obscure thing that I threw out and he desperately loved.  And I would have to lie about it... again.

And so I have a clean closet now.  I have sweaters in a sweater area on the top shelf next to the sweatshirts.  Jeans are stacked in one spot.  T-shirts are all in one drawer instead of three.  And it feels awesome.

I can't wait to clean something else now.  I challenge all of you to pick one room (even a portion of a room) and get rid of the stuff that is just taking up space.  At the very least go through that website and try to get inspired.

I guarantee you'll want to get rid of something when you do :)

Happy Thursday.... It's almost Friday!!

P.S.  Yes, I was even inspired to simplify my blog too.  Hope you like it.