have nothing in my house that I do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful

...as well. I’m seriously in need of getting rid of things. I’m ready to start devoting myself to minimalism. If I don’t love it or use it, it’s gone. I don’t want a lot of things, but I do want the things I have to be of good quality. 4 weeks ago

I joined 43 things, started journalizing here, then life interfered -) I gave up two of my goals and deleted them completely. This one is still a valid goal – and I am majking some progress – three years later!!

Why have I been gone? My business changed, my family changed, and my husband has passed away. My life has thrown me that curveball.

But not my goal isn’t gone – still I have this goal, and I’m working at it as hard as ever – accomplishing things that I never thought possible.

My life has changed utterly since the last time I was on this site, but I’m going to make the best of it. Things will be different, not the original path at all, but a great life nonetheless. 4 months ago

Woke up this morning and realized that I should sell some of my books to 1/2 Priced books and I should get rid of my box of files and use a folio instead. It saves space. Considering I look at the files once every month or two, it makes sense.

I wish I can get to a point where I see these needs immediately instead of having to sleep on it. 6 months ago

Been going through my closet last night. Ain’t done! I have a lot of crappy dry cleaner hangers to recycle. 6 months ago

I’m starting to get in the habit of donating or selling things I do not use anymore. I take time to test the item to make sure I do not want it anymore and I get on ebay or sell it.

I want to be more consistent with this. 6 months ago

As an act of decluttering I have printed this on the bottom of the areas to declutter page on the wall. If I can use this as my mantra while I clean, perhaps progress. If it has negative energy, throw it away. 6 months ago

My mom says I have too much crap in my drawers. I took it to heart and little by little have been removing them. Returning clothes I think are ugly or appliances I do not use. Or selling items on ebay or giving things to my boyfriend, lol

Eventually, I should have just 1 of each item that I use on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. This includes food, beauty products, etc. And all my clothes will look nice and be well kept. This is my end goal. 6 months ago

and I felt that everything was either useful or beautiful. The main issue was tidying and putting things away – but that didn’t take long. I feel that my house is how I want to be, and my boyfriend keeps his computer area tidy, the only place I have no say in, so … yeah. Goal accomplished!

(although if I ever have a spare room for meditation and relaxation, it’ll look like this:

) 7 months ago

I’ve minimised my possessions and I’m in the process of eliminating clutter, but I’m finding it really hard to really crystallise this goal. Or perhaps I have, I just don’t realise it?

Part of eliminating items was to make sure the only things I had were useful, and I kept some things which were beautiful to me. Right now, this is definitely a work in progess. It’s a part of integrating J’s things into the house, making sure neither of us have more than we need and want and use and appreciate, and so on. I guess I should go through the list of things in my house and decide whether they meet this goal.

The hardest thing is I see the word “beautiful” and the rest goes out the window – I feel everything should be beautiful, even though some practical things can’t be (like heaters and clothes horses and so on). So for now, I’m going to continue passing a critical eye over everything I see each day, making sure it’s in line with this. 8 months ago

I’m finishing semester this week, so I plan to spend the weekend going around the house, looking at each item and assessing it as per this. everything else will get put in a pile on the bed (I’ve done this since I was young; it means I can’t sleep until I’ve finished tidying!) and then assessed/sorted. I might put it in a box somewhere to check that I absolutely don’t need it, and then … yeah. we’ll see. 8 months ago