Changing your Unorganized Life: And How to Benefit Others In the Process
I've heard many people talking about how it’s very sad that America now has it’s very own successful TV show about people who pile their homes with things they don’t need, but that usually have some sort of psychological meaning to them, to the point where they cannot even get to their bedroom or garage without making a small trail through the stuff. (i.e. Hoarders) And I agree with these people. It is saddening to see the amount of physical and mental addictiveness to things that is now present in this country. Whether it’s an addiction to shopping, or a mental coping mechanism from some unknown negative influence or event that happened to this person, causing them to now lean on material things for a small piece of ‘happiness’, it’s a sad reality. But that’s a subject for a whole other post on mental addictions,which I’ll be writing soon. But you don’t have to be a ‘hoarder’ to feel overwhelmed by the piles of papers and closets full of toys and VHS’ in your home that haven’t been touched in years. Why do we hold onto these items that we don’t reallyneed? Is it an emotional attachment? A daunting task to organize? Are we just too lazy and act like it’s an “out of sight, out of mind” thing? Even though I’ve been there and done that, it baffles me. It baffles me because an organized home really does change the way we feel. More specifically, it makes us more confident about our surrounding – which we control, and when we feel really in control of our lives, anything can happen. Beyond that, it has an almost spiritual effect on our minds and a natural uplifting effect. We feel more free, more energized, like we can breathe better. Really..I’ve tried it! Hmm…maybe the whole Feng Shui thing really is onto something (I mean, it has been around for thousands of years…)
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On top of the personal achievement, a more organized and simplified home, an uplifted spirit, and room to breathe, there are other matters to be considered as well. I’m sure you’ve heard the old argument from the person that says “there are kids in Africa with no clothes, and look at all that you have and don’t use!” At which point the conservative responds, “Well hippy, that’s why I live in America, so I can work for these things and have all that I want.” And nothing has been solved. There is a difference between things that you work for, use, and enjoy, and things that you’ve mindlessly acquired over the years that just sit around gathering dust that can be used for other purposes. We need to train ourselves to not only try and better our own lives by reducing clutter, but also perhaps enhance other (less fortunate) people’s lives that may need that clutter to have a better quality of life. There are plenty of children in foster homes and homeless in America that could use those piles of clothes, and who have never had a chance to work for the things they need. I’m not saying I am biased toward resale shops and garage sales, but if we could just train ourselves to reconsider trying to make a few bucks off our junk (which usually ends up in the pile of someone else’s junk), and give it to donation boxes or charities, we take a load off our lives and give a load to people in need. It’s called charity, it’s called love.
(Clothing donation boxes are usually in the corner at every grocery store, and paper recycling can be found almost anywhere in your city.)
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