Ready to return to the Hoard

[ragani]

Wow, am I posty today. Guess I am making-up for last week.

In a recent post, waywardbound talks about returning stuff to the Hoard. No, this is not a WoW reference, it is in fact from Niel Gaiman's American Gods. The idea is a great one to keep in mind during a purge of clutter, and so I was not surprised to find a similar idea in the Clear You Clutter book I mention in my last post.

Karen Kingston, the author, quotes Stuart Wilde's book Infinate Self on how to "Hold on to Nothing." What he calls the God Force could just as easily be the Hoard.

Everything you have is in the care of the God Force. If you come home and the stereo is missing, you can say "Ah, the've come for the stereo, " rather than getting uptight about it. It's just gone back to the God Force. Somebody else has it now. That leaves space for another stereo to come into your life. Or it leaves space for no stereo at all. Now you'll have the silence to meditate and think about who you are and what you want in this life.

And his advice on spending:

The whole function of money is not to have it; its function is to use it. The main reason for generating money is to buy experiences. You want to get to the end of you live with zilch in the bank, and look back and say. "My God, look at the huge pile of experiences," because none of your memories are ever lost.

In regards to my resolution to reduce my clutter by 50%, this is something I am going to have to keep in mind.

Comments

[aiglet.livejournal.com]

Are you using clutter to mean "stuff" or just the room that stuff takes up in its disorganized state?

I managed to reduce the pile of boxes in my front hallway by over 50% just by making sure that they were all packed full and removing the ones that were empty and moving stuff that had places to those places, and I called that "clutter reduction" even though I didn't actually dispose of anything (aside from the empty boxes...).

[ragani.livejournal.com]

Meant to answer this ages ago. Clutter meaning the actual belongings, mainly. Sure, organizing it does help lots, however, I also need to have less stuff. So, really, both, because not only do I want to get rid of actual belongings, but what I keep needs to stay organized better. Spending time managing "stuff" that does not bring me joy is not something I feel I should be doing often.

Of course, now that I have moved, although I still should get rid of more "stuff" I need to focus on organizing what I have left to better see what I want to keep and what I can live without.