It’s almost spring so I am contemplating a major clear-out. Not only that, I want to dispose of items that have been clogging up my loft space for several years – boxes and boxes of old paperwork, bags of clothes I thought I might wear again, printers that were never fixed, computers that look like they should be in a museum, storage units that don’t fit in my living area, and the list goes on.
My husband hasn’t allowed me to go up into the loft for some time because we had an invasion of wasps a couple of summers ago and he thought there would be a nest up there, not to mention a gazillion spiders (he’s a serious arachnophobe).
I was finally given permission to open the hatch a few days ago, which revealed a number of webs and a few dead wasps but nothing more scary than that. Everything else was pretty much as we had left it, unloved and unwanted.
Now we have the opportunity to get rid of a lot of junk, and I know it is going to feel good. I have read many articles about how therapeutic it is to get rid of clutter – how cleaning your outer space shifts energy in your inner space.
I know many hoarders who find it very difficult to let go of stuff they have collected or kept hold of for years. And it’s usually the emotional attachment that’s hard to let go of, rather than the object itself.
The unwanted junk in our loft was put there four years ago when my husband and his worldly goods moved in to my small flat. At the time I was not ready to get rid of some of that stuff, but I am now. It’s time to move on.
Perhaps removing some of this clutter will free up space in our relationship for something new and even lovelier to grow and give us both an energy boost.
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