"If what you own makes your life tougher - why do it? Think about your relationship to your assets and possessions. Do you own them or do they own you? Many of you are collectors. Is your collection a dusty albatross around your neck? What can you do to improve how you handle your stuff?"
Georgia Nichols wrote that in my horoscope for this week.
I had just been searching for something on a crowded bathroom shelf, making a mess in the process. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I'm sure it's there. I decided this collection of stuff just might be the albatross mentioned above. Since I have just won a basket full of new products, I thought this might be a good time to clear off that shelf, display the new products, and only replace the other things I find myself reaching for over the next month or so.
The basket came from a draw at a local Home Show, and contained a wide variety of Arbonne products. If it's used on your hair, face of body, it is probably in that basket somewhere. There are even a few dietary products, that I'll test out next week.
The left hand side of the cupboard is always used for bandages, and cold or allergy products. The right hand side has bath products. Other odds and ends went into a low box to contain them, with my every day stuff right in front of that. That left the centre open for the new products. I want to use them all during the month of June so this seems like a good place to store them for now. I left them in the cases they arrived in, but will likely take them out as I work my way through them.
I threw away a lot of old products and put the rest in to a bin, which will be in the (where else?) spare room next to the bathroom until the end of June. Then I'll deal with whatever is left in there that hasn't made it's way back to the cupboard with use during that time.
During this de-cluttering process I did find a couple of things that I had duplicates of. That most likely happened because I couldn't see what I had, or couldn't find it when I needed it in the past. Not only did I win a basket full of new products to try, I think I won in another way too. I now have this terribly cluttered shelf, where I couldn't find what I was looking for, all cleaned up.
I had just been searching for something on a crowded bathroom shelf, making a mess in the process. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I'm sure it's there. I decided this collection of stuff just might be the albatross mentioned above. Since I have just won a basket full of new products, I thought this might be a good time to clear off that shelf, display the new products, and only replace the other things I find myself reaching for over the next month or so.
I threw away a lot of old products and put the rest in to a bin, which will be in the (where else?) spare room next to the bathroom until the end of June. Then I'll deal with whatever is left in there that hasn't made it's way back to the cupboard with use during that time.
During this de-cluttering process I did find a couple of things that I had duplicates of. That most likely happened because I couldn't see what I had, or couldn't find it when I needed it in the past. Not only did I win a basket full of new products to try, I think I won in another way too. I now have this terribly cluttered shelf, where I couldn't find what I was looking for, all cleaned up.
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