It's difficult to see the progress I've made because it's been a tiny bit each day for the last several weeks. Our DI box is overflowing and that's about the only indicator that I've been doing our annual purge.
Getting rid of our superfluous belongings is becoming an obsession. When my mind wanders (which it frequently does) it finds its way to closets and drawers, searching for more items to add to our donation pile.
Several years ago Bryan read about a family that decided each persons belongings should fit into one suitcase. Whatever didn't fit they got rid of. Can you imagine all of your earthly possessions fitting into one small suitcase? I can't. And yet, there is an appeal to the simplicity that would provide. If we only had the contents of five suitcases to worry about (for our whole family) I bet the laundry would go much faster.
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I was just thinking about the pioneers and how much "stuff" they were able to haul with them across the plains...only the essentials and perhaps not even that.Remember the visiting teaching message about the sister who noticed a little boy at the home of one of the sisters she visit taught, who only had one car to play with. He was having so much fun with ONE car that the next time she came she brought him many cars to play with. Well the next time she went back the little boy was not playing with the cars at all and when she asked why he said there were too many and he didn't know what to do with them all! Just a lesson that "stuff' gets in the way of fun! I understand that little boy...I have so much stuff I simple cannot use it all or remember where it all is. Yeah for you going through your stuff. I think I'll do the same!
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