Living with less

I've been on a bit of a purging streak. With the holiday season upon us, I feel the need to get rid of all the things we aren't using. Appliances that have broken and are beyond repair, books I don't or won't read, home decor items that were given to me by well-meaning relatives with questionable taste.... It's junk. It's all just junk. We're going to be getting more junk. This day and age, junk is pretty much inevitable. My children have expressed the desire to gut their room. They have told me they are tired of tripping over toys they don't play with, and they have outgrown so many clothes and books. This is what I intend to do with all those unusable kid things. The Carolina Kids Consignment sale is wonderful. I had a booth at the last one, thanks to my Scentsy sponsor. The booth did kind of "meh", but getting to see the sale was pretty great. There were people lined up out the door, including one of my neighbors, whom I randomly decided to introduce myself to at the event. Haven't spoken to her since... wow. Apparently neither of us are very good neighbors.

Anywho... got on a bit of a tangent. I've been reading some blogs about tiny eco-houses. It's all well and good if you are comfortable living in 70 square feet. If I was a single person, I could probably manage something like that very well, but I think I am reasonably comfortable in my small (rather than tiny) house. It' s 16x80, which is the larger end of a single-wide, but it's still a mobile home and a comfortable fit for our small family. It'll also be paid for in less than a year now, so that is very much a positive. There are a lot of things I would like to do to make this house better, maybe even a little bigger, but I think this will be it for us. That said, I still want to throw 3/5 of the stuff in my house in the garbage.

I am going to make it a point to re-use, re-do, re-gift, and upcycle as much as I can. I want so much gone, but there's no point in waste either. I'm sure someone out there would love to have a glazed ceramic votive holder that looks like a cross-eyed puppy in a beehive. Right? Maybe I can go ahead and trash that one ;)