There’s something about the new year that brings out the organizer in all of us. Maybe it’s the desire to start fresh, wipe away the previous year and start over.
I started the new year by moving a bookcase out of my laundry room and into my son’s bedroom. Big deal, right? Actually it was. I knew I was going to get rid of a few things from the bookcase but when I finished, all that was left was one shelf’s worth of stuff. I donated everything except for the 15 games my sons are going to sell to Gamestop.
How could I have kept so many things I didn’t need? The answer was as clear as my newly emptied bookcase: I had extra storage space so I used it. Sound familiar? It’s a simple math problem…the more space you have, the more things you’ll keep. It was easier to stick something on a shelf in case I needed it some day (something my clients always say) than to decide whether I really needed to keep it.
So this new year, take a look at your closets, bookcases and cabinets (not in one day…it’s too overwhelming) and see if you can get rid of a few things you’re no longer using. Maybe you can even move a bookcase into another room and store books in it instead of stuff you don’t need. That’s what I call a novel idea.
