Cadbury cream eggs.
But really, it's the 6th year we have honored the #40bagsin40days tradition, and shamefully, we STILL have 40 bags around the ranch to dispose of. To my credit, I have done a pretty good job of making 40 YEARS of stuff at the in-laws somehow disappear or be borrowed permanently. It is time again, to dig deep in the utensil drawer and the lost sock camp and do some purging.
I recently met a mom in my office who had lost her family's house in a fire the day after Christmas. They all escaped unharmed, yet they had to tell their six-year-old that all the toys Santa brought were gone. Tragic.
Amid the tragedy, she tried to find solace in her forced minimalism. When the insurance complany was walking through the remains with her, pointing to cabinets and drawers inquiring about their contents, she said she honestly couldn't recall what had been there. Some of that was perhaps shock from the trauma, but she told me that obviously it wasn't that important or she would be pining for it.
The message here is stuff is fleeting. We don't really need the 20 hoodies she said she found partially destroyed in one room of the house. Put your pictures in the cloud and valuable information like card numbers, passport information, and birth certificates in a fire safe box. The rest cannot matter. As the Minimalists say, material things only have the value we assign them. Don't get hung up on the value.
Go through your house and do a bag a day til Easter. It may be a small bag, or it may be a suitcase full. You've probably got it to spare. And by the time you're unwrappping those cream eggs, you'll be decrapifyed and ready for summer!
Happy Decluttering, friends!
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