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.

I imagine that I will need to get through the holidays before I hit this project hardcore, so please check back. In the meantime, I'm doing my homework and looking for insipiration. I also hope that by taking you on this journey with me, it will motivate me to actually get it DONE!