Look at all this Crap

Recently I had to clear things out of several rooms of my home temporarily, and the process left me thinking the title of this post. So many things I'd been inventing reasons to keep or excuses to not get rid of for so long, and now it was costing me time and energy. So when it came time to put everything back, I forced myself to go through a brutally honest audit of my possessions. My challenge to you today is to, at least mentally, do the same thing.

If You Had to Move

If you had to move immediately, what would you actually take with you? What would be worth it, and what is just sitting in your home because you haven't taken the time to get rid of it? And what would you STILL be willing to move into your new home once you were looking at that truck full of your stuff? What would you look at, as I did, and say "I haven't used that in X months/years, I'm not putting it back."

If there are things you wouldn't take with you and make the effort to put back, take them down and put them away. If you don't miss them after a week, donate them or give them away. Keep your life free of clutter and things you don't use.

Are You Really Eating all That?

Kitchens are a place that things pile up. Ingredients and bottles of things you'll totally use someday when you do that one recipe from that one time again, to say nothing of the things growing in your fridge.

Do an honest audit of your cooking and eating spaces, and pitch or donate things you find yourself buying and never eating or using, or that you've been putting off cleaning out. Get in the habit of only buying what you need and know you will use. 

Doing the Audit

As always, I want to hear from all of you. Tell me about the audits you've done and what you've gotten rid of.