Simplifying Life

Rowan9

Ellidee wrote: »

A good tip for deciding how precious something is to you is to ask yourself ' If I was to emigrate to Australia would I pay to have it transported ? ' Not sure where I heard this .

Aha this is a good one which I've seen in action. My DD age 23 has moved to Australia to be with her Australian boyfriend. She was a sentimental hoarder of stuff as well as a buyer of books and i was soooo impressed with her ruthlessness in bagging up stuff for the charity shop. She went off with one big suitcase and has a small amount of things (mostly fav books) at mine and at her dad's. It even prompted me to go into the loft and sort out old photos among other things! i also took 8 carrier bags of my stuff to the charity shop that week - yippee :T

ceridwen

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Thanks for all your suggestions Ceridwen, don't ruin your liver on my behalf though, lol.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

...will try Hester...mind you dont know what ideas I might wake up with in the morning!

I was thinking this morning about a little 20 minute video that is making the rounds at the moment in the blogosphere and....lo and behold..... doing a quick run through blogs tonight (and adding a couple more to my favourites ---but its okay Hester, they're not MSE type ones!!! lol) and one of my current favourites is featuring it now..., ie "The Story of Stuff" - so the latest blog I have found it on is:

www.bean-sprouts.blogspot.com/

on the 30.12.2007 entry.

I personally think it puts things very clearly.

Enjoy.

(and - dont worry Hester - that blog is already on my "recommended reading" list!)

Hardup_Hester

Thats good news Ceridwen, otherwise I might need to spend a day decluttering my blog list!!!

MoneyGypsy

Hi,

yesterday and today OH and I managed to declutter the bedroom and the boxroom. Gave lots of bags of clothes and shoes to a charity shop today. Also threw out junk that I haven't used in ages. Going to a friends house in a bit and going to try to give away some jewellery! Have some stuff to try and sell too.

Defo going to watch 'the story of stuff' tomorrow.

LOL

:T :T :T

thriftlady_2

Anyone else having problems watching The Story of Stuff video Ceridwen linked to ? It's frozen on me it was really good too.

Aril

Happy New Year to everyone!
One of my favourite sayings is a Shaker one:
"Tis a gift to be simple"
Aril

ceridwen

thriftlady wrote: »

Anyone else having problems watching The Story of Stuff video Ceridwen linked to ? It's frozen on me it was really good too.

could be that happened because you clicked on the YouTube screen on the blog.

Try

www.storyofstuff.com/

ceridwen

Aril wrote: »

Happy New Year to everyone!
One of my favourite sayings is a Shaker one:
"Tis a gift to be simple"
Aril

second line "Tis a gift to be wise" if my memory serves me right. Good one.

apple_mint

ceridwen wrote: »

could be that happened because you clicked on the YouTube screen on the blog.

Try

www.storyofstuff.com/

Thank you for this Ceridwen. Could you point me to the video on this site? Is there a sort of U tube page?

do_it_today!

Goodness imagine if every household in britain got rid of aalllll their stuff the landfill would be full!!!

I agree with all this clutter clearing but what is everyone doing to ensure that these lovely empty spaces/shelves/ rooms/boxes/ bags/ rooms/ lofts dont get filled back up again for another clearout - (Nature abhors a vacum) apparently!
my personal strategy at the moment is to
avoid shops - I notice that by not even have a windowshop things arent coming home - how long I can keep this up Im not entirely sure.

Books I buy books but not in the same quantaties as before and when I am done with it - it goes on amazon!

I think Im going to ask people to stop buying me presents.... that will help
keep going everyone.