I was talking with my friend last evening and we were discussing about our wardrobes. She plans to renovate her home and for that she needed ideas. I know her place so based on the area I gave her some suggestions of remodeling. She told me she had 3 wardrobes and she wants to add one more as she finds it difficult at present to place all her stuff in the 3 wardrobes she has. She is single and all this is to herself, and I joked with her why she would need so much for just herself. She told me she has her stuff from many years and she does not want to remove it, even though if she is not using it.
This is exactly what happens with most of us, we just keep accumulating things all our life, even if we need it or not. Even I do this, I am not an exception, but then I keep going through my stuff time and again and try to remove what has not been used for a long time and this also makes me realize how much money I waste over things. Specially we women, we keep buying and buying and accumulating and then we do not even discard. Few days back, I was on a cleaning spree and I must have cleared almost half of my wardrobe and even after that I feel there is lots. But still there were couple of clothes which are very old, and I am not even using them, yet I did not have a heart to remove them. Especially there is one dress which is from my school days and I have some very strong sentimental value for it. I can feel my dad's love in it. My dad would buy a lot of clothes for us, but I have no clue why this dress has so strongly registered with me. I do wonder why do I have this strong connection with this one thing, which is so irrelevant.
Throughout this year I have been mindful about my shopping and done very bare minimal shopping. I want to go the minimalist way now. There was a time when I would go to a store and buy clothes in bulk, but nowadays I do not feel like doing those kind of crazy things. Even if I like something I think of how much I will use it and only then buy it. At the end of the life the only thing that we will take with us are our life experiences and the love of the people and yet all our life what we accumulate is things. We find our enjoyment in things more then in people and experiences of life. Nowadays when people travel they are more worried about their clothes what they will wear on holiday then anything else.
Things are important for our regular use but giving them so much importance is also not the right way of life. Hoarding on to things more then needed is actually a energy blocker, because then it keeps getting accumulated and this stops the flow of the energy in those cluttered spaces. Whether it is the wardrobe or other parts of the house.
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