Several years and a house ago, my family and I had a two car garage. In that garage was a wall to wall heap of our stuff. We had boxes, bags, shelving units, and other stuff that couldn’t fit in or on any bag or shelf. It just sat there and sat there.
Once in a while someone would venture in to add to the heap or to find something in it. The finding almost always failed, “I know I have a utility knife in here somewhere”. I could only find flat head screwdrivers when I was looking for Philips or visa-versa.
The result was, our second biggest investments sat out in the weather, our stuff sat unused in a cool dry place and I repurchased anything I couldn’t find. How pathetic. We must be insane, because the garage in our current house is also filled to the brim with stuff. What are we thinking?
Anyway, there have been times when the garage did get cleaned and purged of the stuff. Those were some of the happiest days of my life, no really. All of a sudden, I could find things the things I really wanted and that had a practical purpose. I let go of most of those books “I want to read someday”, school papers, the vintage microwave “just in case we need it”. So many excuses. So many emotions and fears of letting go. We made all that investment in “stuff” we hadn’t used in years.
This is a wake up call to all you with attics, garages, basements, spare rooms, and storage units filled with stuff to “purge baby purge”. I for one will be performing a Spring Purge this coming weekend.
A few words of advice, don’t buy stuff if you don’t really need it, if it’s garbage to you it’s a treasure to someone else, and if it’s hard to let go , then “take a picture it will last longer”. Less let’s you live more.