Organizing

I've subscribed to a couple of decluttering/organizing e-newsletters. They looked good to me, and I thought it might make interesting reading at the beginning of my day. One of them though... isn't great shakes. It's a decluttering & organizing newsletter, but so far, all the newsletter is promoting is various products that can help organize our lives... like colour-coded staple-removers... In my book, organizing a mess means you still have a mess... it's just organized. I am more drawn to the decluttering aspect of organizing... getting rid of things, clearing space... The other newsletter is much more along those lines and inspires me to get going and let go of things that I've been holding onto for far too long!!

http://www.unclutter-organize-transform.com/

The author, Sue, says that clutter doesn't start outside of us... it starts inside of us... which makes perfect sense to me and agrees with the other things I've been reading... I can feel the pull of unfinished projects and hobbies that I no longer practice or enjoy... I still have all the stuff and I feel a certain guilt around it... So, why do I keep the stuff?? In the hopes that one day I might come back to it?? Kind of crazy don't you think???

But that's the craziness of clutter... it holds onto us... and we hold onto it... And the more clutter I hold onto, the more clutter is attracted to this clutter pile! It's like gravity... the more mass my clutter has... the more clutter it attracts... ick!