Less Stuff, More Oxygen

I just have this hunch that getting rid of stuff will give us more space to breathe. I don't mean that there will magically be more O2 particles roaming our house. Perhaps peace and relaxation will begin to conquer, instead of piles of mail. By the way, I have never in my entire life become so annoyed with junk mail. Think of how much junk mail is sent to every family around our nation, and also consider the amount of people who are not recycling the mail. It's horrifying.

We've been sticking to a regimen, that I didn't outline in the earlier post, because it's probably bad luck for an ENFP to post any sort of regimens until it has actually started. It has. Here it is, every day we choose at least 2 items to get rid of, recycle, or send to the thrift store. Over the past week, we've made a list of things to sell. That's money in the bank (as soon as I start our craig's list postings). Then we also sent a large, 33 gallon trash bag of items to the thrift store. We got rid of clothing, curtains, a lamp, shoes, records, random trinkets that we never really liked in the first place, lots of paper, phone books (this years & last), and many other things.

Our list of items to sell--

a refrigerator
a slightly broken dishwasher (very easy to repair)
a gas fire place
2 cars (we will replace at least 1 car)
lots of how-to books
an old computer
a toilet
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All would equal well more than what our roof repair is going to cost.

Nathan and I are finally having more serious conversations about what minimalism would mean in other areas of life. Hmm...