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11 Aug 10 The Freedom That Comes With Decluttering
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I have taken on the challenge to declutter my life and home over a ten week period. I’ve taken this challenge seriously, and probably gotten rid of more things in a few weeks than what I needed to do in the full ten weeks if I had been anal about only doing five things a week.
Apart from a lot more space, decluttering your life comes with an other benefit: a sense of liberation.
Consciously or unconsciously, having lots of “stuff” creates a silent, underlying stress: you worry about what you have, where to store it, how much it’s worth, what if someone steals it and so on and so forth. Decluttering means getting rid of this stress. You know what things you own and what things are actually important, because you start having an overview of what those things actually are.
You start realising that if you want to move, moving isn’t such a big hassle because you know what you own and what matters.
“Stuff” doesn’t really matter, what is important to me these days is experiences, and you don’t need a lot for that. Getting rid of the excesses and curbing new acquisitions means that you win in getting more space, less stress, less worries and a sense of more having more freedom.
