Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
This isn’t one of those “1001 books you must read before you can consider yourself well-read” posts. This is more of a clutter post: what do you have sitting around waiting to be read?
Books, magazines, papers, bills? How big is your stack? Where do you keep it? And if you dare confess it, how long have they been waiting?
Most of us have a tendency to collect a certain class of object. Not necessarily intentionally; not necessarily because we want or like them; but simply because we have a weakness in that direction.
It could be clothes, books, toiletries, craft supplies or papers. It could be something else. It could even be digital. Whatever is easiest to accumulate and hardest to let go of. What is it for you?
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find – and I hear from other people that they agree – that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
Gretchen Rubin