‘Room hurricane’ season still on

The ‘room hurricane’ swept through my room this evening once more.  Many of my toys sought ‘refuge’ in their ‘hiding places’ as they were terrified of being in my way, in case I picked them up and tossed them into the “To-Clear-Out” box or recycling bag.  Fortunately only cardboard and paper make it into my recycling bag.  Toys that make it to the “To-Clear-Out” box are either for sale or given away to someone’s kids.  I also have a trash bag to contain all the broken or unused items and I managed to fill it up.  I don’t know how I did that. 

Letting go of your things can be hard to do as we get can so ‘emotionally attached’ to them for being with us for a period of time, even if we don’t need those certain things anymore.  A good friend of mine has a clear-cut rule for clutter clearing: if you haven’t used an item in the past year, chances are that you don’t need to use it in the coming year or ever at all.  Hence you can ’safely’ discard it.  It’s easier said than done because of ‘emotional attachment’. 

Our so-called physical possessions are perpetually in transit only.  Eventually they will leave our hands and move on to other owners or places, in some way or another.  We are all their temporary owners only.  Despite knowing all these ‘philosophies’, I still find it a ‘challenge’ when it comes to clutter clearing.  The process exhausted me so much that I ended up very tired and sleepy after it.  I have not even scraped off the tip of the iceberg after ad-hoc sessions of clutter clearing this year.  It looks like I have to much more ‘ruthless’ to really see a marked difference in my clutter clearing efforts.  I shall continue the process tomorrow, gotta go to bed already, *yawns*.