Daily Reporting for 28 November
The GOOD NEWS is I only bought $17.00 worth of books for Black Friday. Most were for Christmas presents and ALL were from the Half Price bookstore, so they are recycled.
I repeated my mantra, "Is this going to make my life more simple, or more complex?" And it helped me to only buy things I need, but when some of them were only fifty cents, I probably over-indulged for my grandbaby. I'll have to remember that a bargain, especially on books, is a trigger.
As we are getting out the Christmas decorations, I am starting to purge some of the old old stuff. Not nearly enough, because each item has a memory. Yep, another trigger. Memories are also a trigger for saving stuff.
Lessons learned today:
Triggers for wanting or keeping stuff--and getting in the way of decluttering and simplifying my life.
1. Bargains, (especially when it comes to books, gifts, grandbaby)
2. Memories attached to items
Trigger Lesson from yesterday:
1. "I might need this in the future"
2. Memories
Geez, who would think this was so complicated. This meta-analysis is helpful.
sat twice for six minutes
again, will be away from computers now until thursday 3rd but good luck to you all
@maryeulrich - Thank you for keeping this up during the holiday! I've taken a thorough rest - some habits were intact, some were not, and I am thoroughly rested and ready to go forward. Also, great stuff on your insights into clutter. It's tough. I've only managed to organize a lot of extraneous things - I hope to begin the thorough process of weeding soon.
Health:
Up at 5:30 am
Did a 20 minute workout
Walked only 8672 steps yesterday. Made it up today.
Started back counting calories today.
Home:
MAJOR decluttering occured. More is needed
MITs 3/3
:-)
Hi Mhnyc,
I'm surprised there is no one here.
About a week ago, I got a new message and it referred me back to this site. So, I've got a million things I need to work on, so I thought I would start another 30 day challenge. What I am thinking is I am going to just keep up the challenge but do it privately in a journal.
So keep up the good work, and I'm sure you will get blasted in January.
Best Wishes, Mary
