When Motivated Mom and I moved our family from Pennsylvania to Delaware six years ago we decided we were going to downsize and simplify.
As part of moving, we auctioned off the vast majority of our stuff save for what we considered necessities (clothes, beds - the basics).
Even with a goal for an uncluttered lifestyle free of miscellaneous stuff we still managed to fill the biggest Uhaul truck available.
Now that we're hoping to make another move, we're looking around our house and discovering... aaaggghhhh an insurgence of stuff!
How did this happen? How did these knick-knacks, odds-and-ends, and curios make their way into our house beneath our very noses?
I suppose I might not be so disillusioned in my lack of resolve if the the items occupying corners of bookshelves, drawers in end tables, and the rearmost corners of closets were necessary. But the sad truth is - only twenty percent of what's in our house are must-haves.
So we're once again faced with getting rid of stuff we need not have acquired in the first place.
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