It's Spring Cleaning day at my home today. At least, it is the start of it. I feel excellent cleaning up all the dust bunnies and crumbs of the winter and getting them out of the place. Even better, I am feeling glad to throw out useless items and consider what to do with the things that we don't use but could be useful to someone else.
It puts me in mind of moving, which I do think I really want to do. A half-hour commute is fairly standard for most people around here, but it sucks the life out of me. It's easier to just come home and stay put then to hang around work for a time and then go out, or leave an outing only to linger at work before we open for a few hours. Our location limits my sociability, and I'm looking forward to remedying that. Cleaning up in mind of moving is fun.
It's continually astounding the amount of stuff that humans accumulate, and I'm astonished that even though I believe that I don't really want a lot of things, I have so very many things anyway. I really don't need even a fraction of it, and most of it doesn't bring joy. So why do I hold on to it all still?
Today, I will decide to part with a significant amount of stuff that I have been hanging on to. Trinkets that are unneeded I can either pass on, sell or throw out. Clearing it out will leave room for better things, or even better, just space to breathe in. We use that phrase as a metaphor, but I think it might be more important literally. How fresh is our air when we clutter it with dusty junk?
I'm off to the donation bin right now with a large pile of clothes to give to others. It makes me really happy, not just to provide for others, but also to get this stuff off of my floor, out of my closet and back into the world to circulate where it needs to go. Stuff does me no good in a closet or being tripped on. Off I go!
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