{"id":442,"date":"2014-02-13T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2014-02-13-living-with-less\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:51:32","slug":"2014-02-13-living-with-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/2014-02-13-living-with-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we go through a family conversation about what we&#8217;re doing and how we want to live our lives, my spouse and I are also taking time for our favourite activity: decluttering.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, we&#8217;re stalled part-way through the process with piles of cardboard boxes, stacks of stuff, and half-filled give-away boxes all over. We&#8217;ve been busy, and I need a push to get to the next stage or I will have a personal melt-down over the mess.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already made some great progress. Over the past number of months we&#8217;ve got rid of bags, piles of clothes, a couple stacks of books (wow &#8230; imagine that!), a stack of towels, a box of large-size reusable diapers, and extra\/ icky\/ cracked dishes. We now have a bunch of things for sale on Castanet or about to be, and the progress is exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the next push. Inspired by <a title=\"this article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lindsay-schauer\/8-things-you-can-live-without_b_4776523.html\">this article<\/a> on what to declutter, here&#8217;s what I think I will try to get rid of now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Books I&#8217;m not going to read or re-read. I love having some books to pass on or &#8220;just in case&#8221; I want to look into them, but that&#8217;s not good enough anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Office supplies we won&#8217;t use. For example, I can&#8217;t stand mechanical pencils, and we have a stack of them on our counter. Good-bye!<\/li>\n<li>Toys. Especially because getting these put away can be hard. Probably less-popular stuffies, and ones that just don&#8217;t get pulled out. I did promise our daughter I would involve her in the process &#8230; so I&#8217;ll try and do that.<\/li>\n<li>Things we&#8217;ve made. Yes, this is an awful statement on the value of creativity and self-sufficiency, but the mobile our daughter cut out and painted for the solstice will not be around for next year&#8217;s events. Or some of my clothing refashions that failed. Or anything else for that matter.<\/li>\n<li>Freezer food. And all other food that has been sitting there uneaten. Some of it is edible and will be consumed, the rest is out of there. I&#8217;m looking for a clean sweep of our food supplies.<\/li>\n<li>Paper. I need to go through our filing cabinet again and chuck or digitize whatever I can.<\/li>\n<li>Craft &amp; sewing supplies. If I&#8217;m not going to refashion it or use it in the next year, I don&#8217;t need to keep it around.<\/li>\n<li>Clothes, round 157. I still have clothes in my closet that I don&#8217;t wear, and often feel like I don&#8217;t have enough clothes. Only ones I wear and love can stay. Repeat after me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping for a clean, spacious space as spring arrives! Few things energize me more than a lovely space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we go through a family conversation about what we&#8217;re doing and how we want to live our lives, my spouse and I are also taking time for our favourite activity: decluttering. Unfortunately, we&#8217;re stalled part-way through the process with piles of cardboard boxes, stacks of stuff, and half-filled give-away boxes all over. 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