There was a criteria for organizing your home by which each item has to be useful or beautiful, and the rest released. (from the book, Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ban Breathnach)
How interesting to look at your home from those lenses. I have way too much stuff that is just simply stuff. I will reduce the useless energy and extra work that the stuff adds to my life....It is like clearing out weeds to see the beauty that you enjoy.
I will be able to see the real things I love and use, when I get rid of the things that have a weak reason to be in our home.
I have emptied walls and drawers for cleaning purposes, but will take the time to filter out the things I no longer find value in.
Our home will then be easier to be in.
I wonder how much of the rest of our lives are cluttered with things we do not find joyful, beautiful or useful? Will this technique work as well on that?
It was amazing to me how much I had around that didn't matter.
I think I hung on to things out of being lazy, being afraid that I may need them at some point, or maybe not wanting to take the time to ask if it was useful or did it carry a connection to me.
How many relationships do I have that are no longer useful or beautiful? Are we too afraid to look closely at them? How much of a drag do they have on our lives? Is it truly possible to filter our whole lives by useful and beautiful?
