How do you minimise your stuff?

@BrandNewMan im down to nearly everything that:
- were gifts from my kids,
- have use,
- or have special people/events connected to them.

Its still more than id like.

But you're right.....i need some rules.

Maybe just a bit at a time?
Im finding abit overwhelming, (albeit freeing), to edit decades of life abruptly 🤷‍♀

@OogieBoogie That's progress .. and a good idea to do it a bit at a time. I'd have trouble parting with gifts from my sons too, understandable.

@Punxi that's a nice thought.🤗

But i have always has this fuzzy image in my head what i wanted my house to look like.

Between raising kids, having a controlling ex, and being caugjt up in the chaos of the everyday....it never happened.
It just organically got cluttered, collected.... held onto.

I never seemed to get round to doing me.

Now i finally have time🤗

This may not be my house but....well ...i want it as close to that fuzzy ideal as i can get it.

Even if it is decades late.

I want to come home to serenity and calm.
Not this bogged up, too much, dusty chaos.
Ive kept too much.
Hung on too tight.

I want clarity and space.
A little bit of witch, a splash of nature, (maybe a smidge of nostalgia).

I dont think its healthy to keep everything.
Its about .... moving on, letting go.
And like you said....just keeping the distilled love.


Im just shit at distilling 😂

@OogieBoogie [never seemed to get round to doing me.

Now i finally have time]

That in an of itself is a beautiful thing.

All of it

And I get it. Lived in a shoebox all though school. Graduated, relocated 3000 miles away and brought only my clothes and a laptop....a few book.

Still working on my fuzzy ideal...but this has definitely insipered me.

I hope it all becomes crystal clear for you.

😊

@FeetAreFantastic that's the hard part.... these are display things...mementos, gifts and such. Each one is like a photo - it has memories attached to it🫤🤷‍♀

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout ugh.... this renting business is brutal!
I think about how much i could be paying off a house instead.

It hurts 🫤

@StygianKohlrabi i honestly couldn't be bothered😂

Its more the emotional connection to every damned little thing.
Everything has a person or a story connected to it.

Ugh....i need to get brutal

@OogieBoogie maybe you can be one of those funny old ladies with a cluttered mantle piece

@StygianKohlrabi dear lort NO 😂
Im fully on my way to being a hipster, pirate, activist granma to two adorable fur babies🤗

Even if it kills me - i REFUSE to have a decor of dusty relics from yesteryear 😏

Books - yes
Dvds - yes
....but the buck stops there on knickerty knacks of utter superfluousness.💪




I think i need to make myself some rules 🤔

@Thatsright yep.... that's what im doing. Mu daughter gets to go thru it, anything useful goes to charity.... the rest in the bin or fire.

@KiwiBird honestly.... that's a battle i fight everyday 😅
Frikken getting old shit...😂

@OogieBoogie Wrong thread....fast not....want not 😁🤣🤣🤣

@KiwiBird 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's hilarious 🤣🤣🤣