Purging that is. I've always had a hard time throwing "stuff" out. Now I'm starting to slowly get used to the idea. If I have not used it in the last year or 2, toss it. It can't be that important.
I find that a lack of clutter to be quite calming. That's also a super hard state to keep things in, so it takes a lot of work and I'm not really there yet. So far it's been somewhat easier because the things we've tossed have not been worth much. I'm going to have a harder time when I toss out things like text books even though I never look at them.
Next time I get a set of book shelves, I'm getting ones with doors so that even if I have a lot of things that would normally look cluttered, I won't see it and it won't bother me. The hard part has been keeping everything in "its place" while in a small apartment since every time you have to access something, it seems that you have to move 3 things first. Ah well. I guess this is why we're house shopping. ;-)
When you have kid(s) you'll learn that to trying to get rid of the clutter is pointless. Instead, you'll just learn to love the clutter. Otherwise, you will just go crazy.
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