live simply

After three days of cleaning, I have gotten rid of about 1/3 of my stuff. I donated most of it, too. My room has so much less clutter – it really feels like a big weight was lifted off of me. I could probably get rid of a few more things, but the majority of the unnecesary stuff is gone. Since I don’t acquire things that often, I’m thinking this is going to be one of the last times I’m going to have to do this.

I’m already well on my way to completing this goal, but to really do it right I want to have my own house with a yard so I can grow my own vegetables and fruits. I also want to power my house exclusively with solar powered pannels I’ll put on my roof. I don’t want my house to be cluttered with things I don’t need or use. In my apartment I have right now, I’m about 80% done with weeding out all of the unnecessary things I have. I take anything I don’t need and donate it to Out of the Closet (and then I can write it off later).

What would be awesome is if when I finally buy a house if I could start my own animal rescue to help animals that are in danger of being killed at the animal shelter, and any strays that come my way. I would want to find them good homes so that I could have more room to take in more animals and keep finding them responsible homes.

I’m going to clean out my closet before my trip to vegas so when I come back I’ll be coming home to a nice neat organized clutter-free house. To me, that’s not all there is to living simply, but it’s a good start.

I want to reduce my carbon footprint – I’m already doing really well in that sense because I’m a vegetarian and I buy organic locally grown produce, but until it gets down to zero, there’s still some improvement to be done.