Garage Sale!
Garage Sale!
The first House Purge garage sale will be held on July 19, starting at 8am! This won't be ALL of the stuff we're purging, but we have so much that we need to get rid of this batch in order to make room for more!Check the newspaper for location!
No earlybirds, please - we don't wake up that early!
What is it?
What is it?
OPERATION HOUSE PURGE is a unique project because instead of beautifying a house, as so many people are aiming to do, I am simply about purging STUFF. It's something that anyone can do, and it doesn't cost a thing. A FREE DIY project. In fact, many people could make money from purging.
We live in a day and age where people are being consumed by their STUFF. (Often times, people's STUFF takes on a character all their own, so I recognize STUFF as a character all its own, by capitalizing the word.) We buy larger houses to hold our STUFF. We spend a fortune on trendy closet organization systems to stash our STUFF. We have elaborate holidays where we exchange nicely-wrapped STUFF. We are living in an age of STUFF, and I need to reverse that in my life.
When people have too much STUFF, they sacrifice time, money, organization, aesthetics, and often happiness, in order to house their STUFF.
Follow me on my journey to purge my house of most of its STUFF. I'll be taking on the exhausting, and often emotional, challenge of eliminating 75% of my family's belongings, proving by doing do we will be able to live a richer life. This is an experiment to see how eliminating the number of possessions a person has can also eliminate the stress, time management struggles, marital and parenting problems, and feelings of needing to buy more STUFF that a person has.
Coming Soon...
Coming Soon...
Stay tuned... I plan to be covering the following topics:- Voluntary Simplicity
- Staying simple through the holidays
- The psychology of STUFF
- Where do I start?
- Home decorating with less
- Inspiration and resources
- Sustainability, Environmentalism and Conservation
- Selling your STUFF
- Giving it Away
- How to manage Kid STUFF
- Collections
- Organization
- Shopping
Are we going to have fun, or what?
Our Goal
Our Goal
We have several goals by doing this project.One MONETARY goal we have is to take a family Disney Cruise. *sigh* Wouldn't that be nice? It's a dream of ours that can't be realized when we're trying to get by on one salary.
We believe that we have SO MUCH money tied up in things we don't want, don't need, don't use, and that take up our energy, that if we sold as much of it as possible, we could use that "tied up" money to fulfill one of our dreams. A vacation that we all get something out of.
MONEY COLLECTED TOWARDS GOAL, TO-DATE: $60.50 (Gotta start somewhere!)
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