Julie Morgenstern not only addresses heaving out one’s clutter but she also addresses other areas of life that can get cluttered and hold us back from the life we truly want and deserve to live. Clearing out the loved stuff from the unloved stuff is baby stepping toward the other areas that Julie addresses. She spends a lot of time teaching readers how to disassociate the feeling from the thing. The washer and dryer your mother gave you is not your mother. When they stop working, it is o.k. to let them go; they are things, they are not the person who gave them to you. It’s o.k. to let go of the hideous photo frame Aunt Sally gave you. Take a picture of it, maybe send her a copy of a photo of you holding it, then thank her for the gift. Once the gift is received it leaves her hands and goes in to your hands. Once in your hands, you can find a place in your home for it or if you really don’t want it, set it free. It is the thought that counts not the thing and if the thing is not serving you then get rid of the thing it becomes a stumbling block if you don’t love it and then it becomes clutter in your way. Its better to free it for someone else to love or to serve someone else and free the space you had for something you do love. Julie Morgenstern’s idea is surround yourself with things you love she finds this also affects other areas in your life, too. Clutter can overpower our thoughts, we can allow our schedules to be so full of clutter that it can affect us physically – stress cause you always say YES instead of No!
Good book with lots of good ideas and some fun introspective quizzes. Helps you understand a lot of what is behind our behaviors and our clutter. Gives some excellent insight into when, where, how and why things are as they are in our lives.
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