What I love about January is the simplicity of it. After you take down the Christmas decorations and put it all away, everything looks so bare and clean. This past weekend we got it all put up and today will be spent creating some new order in old spaces.
New toys need to go in new bins. Old toys need to go to Goodwill. I already boxed up old clothes, mine especially, to go to Goodwill...I had a sweatshirt from college still...I graduated 20 years ago!!
I already reclaimed the cabinet above the refrigerator that Greg had highjacked for his junk cabinet. It now houses my seldom used appliances. Today is the linen closet. I have a husband and kids who can't tell the difference between bathroom towels and kitchen towels and washclothes and dishclothes. I don't see the confusion..it is perfectly clear to me and hence, I am always baffled to see washclothes in my kitchen sink. Okay, it drives me crazy. So, today I am labeling baskets and filling them with appropriate linen and hoping that everyone can read a simple sign around here!
There is joy in the simple life. Too much stuff clutters our minds as well as our homes. Today spend your day clearing some of the clutter from your life and revealing the joy beneath the stuff.
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
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