Okay… I missed Wishcasting on Wednesday, so I’ll do it on Thursday.
Jamie asked
“what do wish for LESS of?” …
The first thing that came to my head? RAIN. Seriously, the rain and dampness and WET is just bothering me this “summer”… I’m SURE its bothering the farmers too.
This has been the wettest summer I can remember for Saskatchewan, although I can’t find any numbers stating how much rain we’ve had, the fact that the ground has been so saturated that rain is no longer being absorbed into the soil (hence the swamp under my back deck) and the flooded ditches and fields around my home would make me believe it is a WAY bigger number than the average (280cm from Jan-Dec)… So, yeah, I’d like a few dry weeks, please?
But more than that… I would like to have less CLUTTER in my life. Not only the physical stuff that I accumulate on a seemingly daily basis, but emotional, spiritual, and intellectual clutter as well. I’m starting to realize that a lot of the STUFF I have is just taking up space to take up space… I have a lot of things I don’t need, don’t use, and didn’t even realize I still HAD. I have realized that there are things I don’t really NEED, or which were from a life I no longer lived. I had collected things or carried things from my past that no longer spoke to me… and I need to start letting it go.
What kinds of things?
Well… Craft supplies from hobbies I lost interest in, old text books from university, old CDs of music I no longer want, VHS tapes (although theEx can have those back if he wants), books I have read and will likely never read again, old electronics, recipes I have printed off, old cookbooks, plastic storage containers that are missing lids (wtf? Seriously, if I have a container why don’t I have a corresponding LID?), furniture I no longer want that is only taking up space, old clothes that no longer fit the kids or which I no longer wear… the list goes on and on.
So I have decided I am going to challenge myself. Every day I am going to get rid of ONE thing that I have been holding on, and hopefully blog about why I kept it, and then find a way to sell/donate/get it out of my home. I know that doing this with ONE thing will be less overwhelming than doing a mass decluttering…
My mission — should I choose to accept it – is to clear out things that don’t matter anymore and bring in things that fill ME UP. It’s not about seeing how little I can live with or trying to win a contest about consuming the least, it’s about letting go of things that do not matter and making space for new, better, more empowering things to come in.
It’s about making room for ME in my life… letting the past go on its merry way and allowing the me I have been wanting to become come OUT. It’s about making the space to fix up my kitchen so I can start to experiment with baking and cooking, flavours and textures and new taste sensations. It’s about letting go of the obligations and things that I tried that didn’t work so that I can streamline and pay attention to the things that DID work. It’s about creating a flow and rhythm in my home, my family, my mind, my body, AND my spirituality.
Less clutter has been such a popular theme this week! Good luck on your project. That sounds like a very manageable way to deal with the clutter. Good for you!
As Pam wishes for herself, so do I wish for her also!