First, I'm not affiliated with the site. I've read it since post 4? 5?
Here's a brief summary:
• Moved from a large 3 bedroom house to a one bedroom apt. (graduate school), to big 3 bedroom duplex, to tiny two bedroom, to big 3 bedroom house again.
• We've settled in my job finally, and all the "some day we'll use this" is meeting the road in that this year, anything we don't use for Christmas is OUT.
• The most important observation: It's ALL, ALL mental.
Techniques are great, but how they apply mentally is everything. Erin's posts have helped ENORMOUSLY to enable me to view my possessions differently. The absolute truth is, the stuff I use every day is a few articles of clothing and a bowl of things - cell phone, keys, wallet.
I used to have a multiple THOUSAND item toy collection, comics, basically a nostalgia addiction. I still enjoy toys, but I've shed so many. Now I'm within spitting distance of being what I consider completely uncluttered. (Yes, I'll post pictures eventually).
I'm enjoying so much of the reduced stuff, because as much as the annoyance of stuff is mental, the peace of the absence of stuff is mental too. It's all head space. I feel 100% better, but the mental adjustments have taken four years. I guess if I had to make one big reflection, it's that physically uncluttering could have been done in a week - but the mental work took me four years. That said, I'm so glad I found this place.
