Just one thing. . . less!

Too much stuff!

It was trash day in our neighborhood, and my next-door neighbor, Kathy, and I were talking about all our stuff. . . the clutter that is stuffing our basements, our attics, our garages. . . big stuff, little stuff, from our kids' lives, our own lives, inherited stuff, stuff from who-even-knows-where. Stuff piled up, tucked away, "organized" - or not - in plastic bins, closets, stacks and piles. . . so many things cluttering up our homes and our lives.

Kathy told me about a plan she had come up with, but hadn't kept up on: to throw away one thing a day from her cluttered basement. To recycle, give away, or put into the trash just one thing, every day. Something as big as, say, an air conditioner, or something as little as, for instance, an empty shoebox. After a year, 365 things would be gone! Wouldn't that be a relief! But that hadn't happened. . . life got in the way.

But what a great idea!

And so my year of "one thing at a time" begins - today! My plan (will life get in the way?) is to get rid of one thing every day, and each day I'll tell you about that thing. Why did I bring it home in the first place? What does getting rid of it mean? Or - who knows what there will be to say about my clutter?

Thanks for reading! Do you want to join me? All you have to do is: toss One Thing at a Time!

xo LD