I've been on a year long journey of decluttering my life and my space in order to have things that I love rather than just a bunch of things just because I've always had them. I started out following the principles of KonMari which have been very popular on YouTube lately, and then resorted to asking myself questions about my things beyond the book in order to try and curb my hoarding tendencies I have gotten from my parents. It's been a long and occasionally somewhat painful journey, and the hardest part is it's far from over. I'm in a constant state of declutter in order to keep my hoarding capabilities from running wild. Cleaning is cathartic for me which is nice because it makes me want to clean, but it takes up a lot of my life just to keep the clutter at bay.
Most of the past few months I've been pushing myself to get rid of things I don't use, which is often the hardest thing for me. My weakness is keeping things simply because they haven't bee used up, and I've spent many a day holding expired lotion bottles and the like over a trash bag convincing myself to let go of it. The rest of the things that may still be usable I've been giving to friends or donating in hopes that it will make me feel much less like I'm throwing things away and more like I'm giving back somehow. For a long time I put myself on a strict no-buy policy, but recently I have let myself purchase the things I need since I have been working so hard to get rid of all the excess sitting around. Of course, I'm still following my No Cart Rule. (I'm not allowed a cart in any store because it keeps me from following my instinct of buying whatever I want, and in most cases I'm not allowed a basket in a store either simply to avoid picking up tons of excess. This of course is unless I have a list of things I plan to buy and require a cart to carry it all.)
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