We all have too much stuff - period. My house is cluttered and I don't like it, but the effort to get rid of stuff seems overwhelming -especially this time of year after Xmas. What helps, is to tell people for Xmas (and birthdays) is that I don't want or need anything. I love that I have people in my life that love me enough to buy me a gift, but I need nothing. When the extended family was larger, we'd choose a name, and buy a 10$ gift for that person (special tea, coffee mug, chocolate, hand lotion, movie or lotto ticket etc) and then each person put 200$ (far less than we'd spend on gifts for everyone) in a pot that had the names of charities we like, to draw for. So a good cause gets several thousand dollars, and we still got the fun of opening a useful gift and not clutter. Another thing that helps is to go digital with various bills. We'd pay on line, but the paper copies would be mailed, which would never be opened. Soon it was a mountain on the counter.I've also reassessed my book collection. I got rid of fiction that I'll never read again, and while I was always a library user, I make much more use of their books on line.My house will never be pristine, but this helps.

We all have too much stuff - period. My house is cluttered and I don't like it, but the effort to get rid of stuff seems overwhelming -especially this time of year after Xmas. What helps, is to tell people for Xmas (and birthdays) is that I don't want or need anything. I love that I have people in my life that love me enough to buy me a gift, but I need nothing. When the extended family was larger, we'd choose a name, and buy a 10$ gift for that person (special tea, coffee mug, chocolate, hand lotion, movie or lotto ticket etc) and then each person put 200$ (far less than we'd spend on gifts for everyone) in a pot that had the names of charities we like, to draw for. So a good cause gets several thousand dollars, and we still got the fun of opening a useful gift and not clutter. Another thing that helps is to go digital with various bills. We'd pay on line, but the paper copies would be mailed, which would never be opened. Soon it was a mountain on the counter.I've also reassessed my book collection. I got rid of fiction that I'll never read again, and while I was always a library user, I make much more use of their books on line.My house will never be pristine, but this helps.

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