Practice active purging

I hate moving. I hate moving the stuff that you haven’t used in forever but you still move anyways because you might use it some day. I also hate junk, or extra stuff.

I’ve been working on picking up a new habit of not buying items that aren’t essential or that I won’t use often. For instance, I love camping so camping items are good buys and I will use them multiple times. Something that is no longer on my list are CD’s, DVD’s and gadgets.

Another habit that I have been working on is active purging, i.e. getting rid of items that I haven’t used in more than three months unless they are a seasonal item.

All of the extra crap you have laying around is just another thing that clouds your thoughts. Typically your junk isn’t worth anything so why not get rid of it or don’t buy it all in the first place.

Living lite and constantly purging gives me several benefits

• Saves money
• Less stuff to worry about or think about (Zen Mind)
• More eco-friendly, less waste

This weekend was one of my purging sessions. I had a carload full of stuff by the time I was done, I know it seems like a lot but most of it was clothes.

• Three garbage bags of clothes and shoes – the clothes were either old or I just wasn’t wearing for one reason or another. Since I mostly wear my Vibrams and new pair of converse I got rid of most of my other shoes except for a few pairs of dress shoes.
• An old desktop computer – it’s been sitting in the garage for the past two houses I’ve lived in, it was time for it to go.
• All of my CD’s – well not all of them since Zia would only take seven of them and for those seven only gave me $12. I brought the rest of the CD’s back home and not sure what I’m going to do with them, probably end up donating them to Goodwill like everything else. Ditch your CD’s, they are the new vinyl.
• A box full of random gadgets and such – two external hard drive cases(using cloud drives now), an old desk lamp and lava lamp. I haven’t used any of these in quite some time and didn’t really see myself using them again anytime soon.

Go through your garage and your closet, get rid of at least 10 things this weekend.

Declutter your living space, it’s addicting.