Decluttering

(from Greenhouseart.com)

Every year, decluttering is top on my summer To-do list.
I'm not someone who is obsessed with certainty or order, so a 'large-scale' decluttering every 6 months or once a year is already fine for me.
Every time I clear things out from my room, the study room and my closet,
I'm surprised by the number of things that I shouldn't have bought, things that I don't need anymore.

Not every woman is a shopaholic but I won't be surprised if someone tells me that females are more likely to be compulsive hoarders.
No no, I'm not a compulsive hoarder.
But I've got to admit that I have excessive amount of things, and which do not necessarily improve my quality of living.

How you ever...
1) Bought clothes that you think you'll wear it someday, but end up putting it in the deepest corner of your closet, not even wearing it once?
2) Kept something that you can alter to fit/ wait till it's coming back as a trend (maybe after a few years or decade)/ look good in itself (point: but doesn't make you look better)
Worse still, that dress or anything you bought to wear when you shed some weight, it never happened, isn't it?
3) Stored things 'just in case'? For example, empty glass jars, paper, paid bills, books.

The list of how we hoard things are endless.

We feel secure to own things. Sometimes, we even feel very good about what we own too.
Sometimes, our possessions make us feel like we're better/more well-off individuals.
That's human nature and we all know that very well.

'It's still in good condition.'
'I can make it into something useful later.'
'It carries precious memories of my (1st date/graduation/wedding/birth of child/you name it).'
Sound familiar, right?
Another thing that encourage people possessing too much/too many is the guilt of tossing things out.
The feeling that we aren't using things at their best potential, creating waste by discarding them.

Especially true when people nowadays are conscious about environmental protection.

Think again. You could live a simpler, equally happy (if not happier) life but owning less.

After all, there is just a thin line between collecting and hoarding.

Love,
N

P.S. I feel so good tossing and donating bagfuls of clothings & piles of magazines away.

It's so refreshing, almost like losing a bit of weight.