De-clutter your cupboards - de-stress your life

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I hope you had fun inspecting your cupboards, pantries and freezers yesterday. Were you as shocked as I was by the amount of food that you had bought, stored and never eaten. Quite scary isn't it. One final word about this particular area before we move on. Now is the time organisations such as the Red Cross and Anglicare are looking for food items to give to those people who don't have as much as you and I. So if you can't eat it, consider giving it away.

Anyway today I'd like to continue this excess removal exercise by looking at other areas of your life. As you will have realised by now, if you have clutter in your life in one area I can almost guarantee that you will have clutter elsewhere too.  Clutter means you can hide behind it. Clutter means that you have every excuse not to get on and do the things you should be doing - because you can't find whatever it is you need to find. Today, there are no more excuses, and if you follow the suggestions outlined, no more clutter. Now I do understand this is not going to be a quick process, but and here is the thing. The more you do, the more you find time to do. It's quite interesting. Don't have time to go to the gym? An evening climbing up and down ladders to get into the top cupboards will have muscles you didn't know exist, working overtime.

One of the biggest areas I have found for procrastination is clothes. How many clothes do you actually wear? Do you wear the same ones over and over again. Are they looking as sad and as worn as a pair of comfy old slippers. Remember that discussion we had the other week about being a Director of First Impressions. If your clothes, shoes, undies all look old and tired then it's about time they were relegated to the gardening, cleaning and painting only collection. We buy things on impulse, we buy things and never wear them. We wear the same stuff over and over and over again, regardless of what we look like. So - now is the time to be honest with yourself. Get rid of those clothes you are hoping to get into one day (after you've lost all that weight)....a hint - by the time you can get into them, they'll be out of fashion....

Get rid of anything that is worn to death, frayed at the cuffs and hems. Get rid of the old and the tatty. But if it still has a bit of life (ie., you bought it and hated it when you got home) then give it to the salvos (or whoever).

Remember all that money you saved by not buying groceries this week? Well now you have some spare cash to go and buy some new clothes. Try factory outlets if you have them close by, or wait for the 25% off everything in store sales. But don't just buy more "stuff" - buy what you need. And if you are not sure what you need, then you obviously don't.

Knowing what you have is important, but it is also worth noting when things need throwing away, and then doing so. Like the food you won't eat, why not donate the items you have never used/worn to the charity shops. Let other people make use of the items. After all, you don't need them, because if you did - you would have used them by now.
 
Have fun with the de-cluttering of your cupboards and your lives. We'll continue this discussion tomorrow.
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