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Finding our lives under everything we own is more Clearing away, just junk often requires were moving good quality things expensive things useful things admired things fancy things. It means letting go of perfect. The good stuff in order to pursue something more meaningful. I be Andy owning my access. Six years ago, my husband deploy frequently we had two children under five. Any more time doing something with our stuff, then doing something with my family was my husband, if way across the world. The kids and I had to pack up to move again it was our third move in six years, but this one was just down the street and how did it go to that be well? The process of personally packing unpacking in organizing all of our stuff drain the joy I ride out of me for two months. I wanted to take my kids to the beach play the

Oregon, listen to their laughter, but I was exhausted and stressed: is he taking care of all our stuff? It was in that stress, exhaustion and desire to better than I had an aha moment. I began to see the real cost of our stuff and was way overpriced. I start peeling away the layers of access and I was on a roll until I had that layer of perfectly good things, valuable things that people that much time and life to purchase. I fell wasteful and said Look at the thought of giving it away. This was good. Stuff was it it may be so, but I was learning quote. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it Henry throw. It is possible to break through the layer of perfectly good things through the process. I learned these practical steps, number one except the mistake offer. We will see many mistakes as we start to purge all the good stuff ignore

It was a mistake, seek a move on keeping something that does Add value to your life keeps his stock holding onto the mistake number to shift your perspective, A journey further into minimalism, I realized there is far our joint giving things away they can ever be found in owning more number three designate a spot. In the beginning, our walk through my house and see things I thought I wanted to donate, but they stay put until I set up a spot to start putting it all set up a box, closet or room to place a donation items remove from your house. Often number for community share your access with your community, when a books to schools and libraries to a close thing and other household goods to local foster care organizations, shelters in your local food pantry number five experience

experimentation by elimination has helped me shed the layers of good stuff quicker. My simplified, my beauty in bath routine by removing sixty to eighty percent of my broad. Much. To my surprise, many things I kept had no real value to my day. Number six. Keep your eye on your. Why, in times of discouragement, make a choice to focus on why you're giving perfectly good things away? Remember you are giving up the good for the best. Number seven ask yourself better questions. Does it serve its purpose to serve my purpose? A cautious thinking about our motives only keep things, but everything has a cost. How much are you willing to sacrifice your passion and purpose for possessions? Some of our thing serve a purpose The important things give our lives, meaning enjoy the useless ones just rain, or time can to be useful to someone else when we hold on a good

things we do not need. We keep them from being helpful to others. I used to think it be wasteful just to give them the way that were barely used or not He's at all, especially if they were cheap, but then I thought what? If I just oh my mistake in buying this thing, I giving away what leave this as someone else's responsibility with my spouse, deploy harms away, I was expected to plan. I filled out the spouse, deployment form pages filled with detailed. Questions and answers should my husband be killed. Experiences like these gave me more prudence. What will the state of my stuff look like when I'm no longer here doing. Joy, this enough to leave for someone to take care of because obey my family taking care of it some day, How do you want to live your life owned him How much you'll live a life own by your stuff, say yes, he should say now and you'll live a life organised by others. Keep more than you need and you'll give less to those in need.

The journey to minimalism might look like it's about going through and purging your possessions, but is much more about going through your heart, quoth, the king, of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life Murray Condo up, I wondered if I would have journeyed into minimalism. Had we not experience the active duty military life if we had to move so often have been stretched and stress would have kept it all put away. Like organise hoarding. Happily. Nonetheless, I'm grateful for the experiences which brought me to the path living more intentionally with a lot less you. Just listen to the post. I a guy to let go of your perfectly good things by so he came with becoming minimalist dot com I'll tell you a little bit about Zoe, but first thank you to Lacroix sparkling water for sponsoring this episode. If you like me, then water gets boring and it seemed

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