Being Organized

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~ Confucius

Those who know me well know that I am organizationally challenged. First of all, I save too much stuff..... (I did, after all, still have the 'Living Guide for 1997.') I'm also a piler, that is, I put my stuff in piles, rather than putting everything away.

I visited the website Zen Habits, which has some great ideas about living a simpler life. Specifically I liked the Four Laws of Simplicity about how to overcome clutter:

1. Collect everything in one place.
2. Choose the essential.
3. Eliminate the rest.
4. Organize the remaining stuff neatly and nicely.

Sounds so easy, and yet, so hard.

With the recent fires in Southern California, and personally knowing a lot of people who lost their homes, I know that it is just stuff. And stuff doesn't really matter. But I still have a hard time not keeping things I like or feel attached to or think I might 'need' one day.
(I know, I've read enough of the clutter 'self-help' books to know I must have some deep-seated fear/problem that I need to overcome.)
But I still keep too much, and have a hard time parting with things.

Feel free to leave a comment with any suggestions you have to help me with
this clutter addiction!

My friend AJ (Primitives~Life~Art) made these signs for me years ago. . . so ME! They make me smile . . . . and think about my proclivity to collect stuff.