I’m in a quandry.<\/p>\n
Completely torn in two directions.<\/p>\n
I dream about living a minimalist life. Away with clutter and too much stuff, bring on the streamlined look – less to look after, space, light, freedom. I really want to live like that.<\/p>\n
But I’m having a terrible job getting rid of anything.<\/p>\n
I’d decided that when I got back from vacation I would start paring down my wardrobe. I have waaaaaay too many clothes, partly because I make a lot and partly because I keep things I like forever.<\/p>\n
Now that I’m looking at everything I can’t bear to part with anything. (Well apart from two manky sweaters, which I knew I would never wear again in a million years). The rest? Can’t let go….<\/p>\n
I look at things and realise that although they aren’t my favourite thing to wear, they still have a lot of wear in them and it just seems wrong to get rid of them, even though anything decent gets donated to the church bazaar, so has a chance of going to a good home. Most of the clothes I possess I bought because I actually liked them. And I actually still do (mostly).<\/p>\n
I’ve realised that what I really want to do is wear things until they wear out and then get rid of them. (I mean I worked hard to earn the money to pay for them). But realistically it would take me about 50 years to get to a manageable level because clothes today just don’t wear out. At least not if you have as many as I do and so don’t wear things all that frequently…..<\/p>\n
Do any of you have this problem? How have you solved it?<\/p>\n
What a first world problem…..<\/p>\n
Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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