Do You Need This Blog?

Your life is crowded and you feel a little selfish and nervous about how much money and time you spend acquiring, upgrading, displaying, and tweaking your stuff. You might have a mess to deal with, or you might have a neat storehouse of more stuff than you need, want, or use.

Is this you?

Here are some symptoms that might be indicators:

• You have one or more storage units.
• Your garage is too full to park a car.
• Your car can't accommodate guests comfortably.
  
• Your home can't accommodate guests comfortably.
• There are areas in your home that you hide from other people.
• Other people offer to help you clear out your stuff.
• You have collections.
• You have multiples (many of the same item).
• You don't have enough floor space because of all your stuff.
• Drawers, cupboards, and closets are full.
• You love your stuff.

If you think you might have a problem, then you probably do. And you can probably do something about it. No one has to know. You can secretly read this blog and see if any (or all) of the 9 tricks appeal to you. Pick one and start. What can it hurt?

I will now define some of the key terms that I use in this blog, just so we're all on the same page:

Stuff --- Non-essential material possessions. You might have an endless variety of stuff, or you might have many of the same thing. Your stuff might be new or expensive, or it might be sentimental junk, or not even sentimental, just junk. If you have multiples of an item, one of them might be essential, but the rest of them are just stuff.

Realm of Stuff --- Locations where you keep your material possessions. For example, your house, your car, your office, your garage, a storage facility, your mother's attic, the boat, and so on.

Acquire --- To add an item to your realm of stuff, not necessarily by purchasing, not necessarily a new item.

Pass It On --- To remove an item from your realm of stuff. Give it away, sell it, find it a new home.

Hoard --- To hang onto stuff that you do not respect or use.