Welcome to INDEPENDENCE DAY month!!!
July represents America’s birthday and well, this year,
With a presidential election just a few months away,
Let’s celebrate our FREEDOM, our DEMOCRACY and our CLUTTER!!
Clutter is a choice. Often times we feel “victimized” by our surrounding clutter. Piles of mail conspiring against us. Old magazine collections loom large.
Garage clutter features a never-ending cluster of TMS (too much stuff).
Freedom allows us to move through our days and nights in a way we cannot imagine
NOT HAVING… can you imagine what CAPTURE feels like and how that’s simply not an option for living?
Yet with a room or home filled with clutter, we are, in effect, captured by our material possessions. As a professional organizer, my goal is to help you find FREEDOM from your stuff, and exercise restraint in accumulating MORE STUFF!
Did you know, for instance, that over 10 percent of Americans rent a STORAGE LOCKER of some kind? That means MILLIONS of people and DOLLARS are spent storing boxes and such in buildings comprised of boxes for rent?!! Though they meet a growing demand, these storage units are traps for possessions we feel we MUST keep, but have no room to keep them. So, we RENT SPACE to store “unwanted” items.
Kind of amazing.
I advocate for resolution with your storage facility… can things be let go of? Can older, unnoticed items be donated? Can the antiques acquired through family be repurposed, sold or released? Let go of what no longer serves you.
Democracy! What is it anyway, and why is it in my column this month?
Because with FREEDOM, EQUAL JUSTICE under the LAW, and a way of moving this and other democratic countries forward, we must adapt to the current climate.
This current climate demonstrates how impactful DIVISIVENESS really is. We see social media “wars” of friends against friends – why? Different viewpoints on what’s important to us. Social media has allowed a certain FREEDOM and ANONYMITY to embolden our voices, our views and our opinions. And not in a courteous way!
If we can find the GOLDEN RULE (do unto others as you would have them do unto you…) and embrace peace in our hearts, homes and communities, then nothing is impossible.
We have the privilege and freedom to vote this November, for the future of Democracy, our country’s liberties, and the pursuit of happiness.
All I’m asking is that you become engaged, active, and VOTE. Sideline-sitting and third party write-ins, though making a statement in their own right, may not help the overall binary decision before us all.
So, please: Take action, be bold, represent YOURSELF by VOTING and encouraging others to exercise their FREEDOM.
Thank you for helping CLEAR the CLUTTER in your own spaces, and for inviting your neighbor over for a cup of coffee or tea. Together, we can make a difference; divided, we fall.
May Peace Prevail on Earth Clear the Clutter… Clear the Mind™
