Spring cleaning, have you started to downsize?
The hanger analogy comes to mind. This method is when you place all your clothing on a hanger and face it one way. By the end of the year, any clothes still facing the other way are clothes you haven’t worn in a year and can probably do without. Have you heard of this?
When I was unemployed, I started cleaning out some stuff. I donated a ton of books and kept a few under one condition. I told myself if I didn’t read these books, by the end of the year I would donate the rest of the year. Four months in and not a single one read. I started thinking, should I wait or slowly start throwing/donating them now?
I started to think about my friends that moved. Not just to another city, or another state, but an entirely new continent. One started giving away and downsizing months prior, the other appeared to wait for the very end to start cleaning out. Either way, moving is an excellent way to clean your stuff and downsize. Like choo and global moving to Panama. Globo had eight suitcases with EVERYTHING!
When we used to travel to Brazil for the summer we would each take two suitcases. That was ten suitcase for three months. He had eight with everything he owned. That impressive! I’ll be moving soon. I need to start cleaning house now. However, I really like my books.
