THINGS are overwhelming

I really have been trying.

Like pretty hard.

To just buckle down and get rid of my obsessive amount of things crap.

BUT

It is just not happening how I had imagined.

I had this image 6 months ago when I started this process of crisp white walls, a closet full of professional amazing clothing and less stress about STUFF. Here I sit now with TWO bedrooms in my parents house plus my 'desk area' i never utilize and another apartment in Chicago still full of stuff.

Don't get me wrong I HAVE PURGED to the nth degree. Boxes and boxes of stuff, bags and bags of clothes. I reduced 2 bookshelves downstairs to ONE in my Chicago apartment. I really am doing OK right. But it is not enough.

I am still holding onto ridiculous things for no apparent reason other than I LIKE THEM. A LOT

So here is what I am going to do.

5 things a day.

That is it.

WELL SHIT I do that all the time right? NO not just Five random things I can easily throw into the trash bags on their way to the Mission (like the three bags of stuff sitting behind me, most of which was like MEH let it go). But stuff I actually have a hard time letting go of (i.e. vintage knicknacks). I will take crappy pictures of them with my iPhone (haha I could be all cool since I AM a photographer and do em all zazzy but that seems just plain silly and a time suck).

I want a MORE SIMPLE LIFE. I don't want to be one of those minimalists with 50 material posessions, white walls and nothing fun. I just don't want to feel overwhelemed. I want to be able to use the rooms that are a part of my life for what their intention was. And for my parents to have a guest room again.

Also I am REALLY REALLY sick of dusting.

This is my way to be accountable. To myself, to whoever is weird enough to want to see my random life and whatever else the world is about. I am moving and while I have already moved a bunch of un-important shit I don't want to keep doing it. I don't really need anything else in my apartment but I keep saying 'i need to pack more'. I literally DO NOT NEED THIS STUFF. And the stress of it is getting to me. So here we go. Hopefully this will help.