Everything tastes better in my Maureen Marcotte bowl, which I bought at the 260 Fingers pottery show last Fall.
I’ve launched a new decluttering campaign at my place. I’m trying to guide myself with this: “If you use it, keep it. If you love it, keep it. Otherwise, give it away.”
I’ve barely begun, and already it’s hard. But I think it would be wonderful to look around me and see only things I love. Like my Maureen Marcotte bowl.
Doesn’t that feel great? We’re contemplating a RADICAL act in simplifying. We’ve been given an opportunity to look after a house on the South Shore right by the Waldorf School there. It would mean the kids and I stayed there during the week and at the farm on the weekends. I’ve been looking around trying to figure out the financial implications. Besides futons I can outfit the second house with things we already have. Isn’t that insane??? How did I manage to accumulate this much stuff?
Hey, if I can accumulate this much stuff as just one person, you can easily do it with four kids! (Sounds like an interesting opportunity, by the way – are you going to do it?)
I think you should come down to Tennessee & work on my place; I’m sure it’d be easier for you to part with my stuff, than it is for me! That is a particularly nice bowl. I know a potter, and frequently buy nice stuff from him. I should put a picture of the teapot he made, on my blog.
We could trade! You could declutter my place and I could do yours. (And yes, post your teapot. I don’t like tea, but I love teapots.)
Being able to look around and be surrounded by things that you love is a wonderful rule to live by.
That bowl is beautiful… and i know just what you mean.. i have a pottery cup that does the same thing for me.
Hi Gail. Do you find you live by that rule more now that you’re in the country?
Thanks! So lovely to see you again.
Your idea that other people can also love this thing well is a freeing one. Think that’ll help my next round of decluttering too.
It was good to see you too, Pearl – and it was good to see those saris out of my closet! Enjoy.
You’re keeping Oboe, right? Enjoy the process!
Oboe’s not very useful, but I do love him, so he gets to stay!
Home organizing to prevent clutter should be done very frequently. Decluttering only becomes easier if we keep doing it on a perpetual basis. We become better at realizing what we should keep opposed to “trash” and it saves us time in our future efforts. I say trash in quotes because we should never throw away anything. Instead, recycle, freecycle, sell, or give it as a freebie on Craigslist.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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