By letting go, I earn more 🌟

Last December 30 and 31, my husband and I took the time (all day) to do a deep cleaning in the small place where we live.

I like to do this kind of cleaning all the time, I enjoy it. But especially when the end of the year comes, I think I enjoy it more because I feel like I start the year with what I need and leave the junk behind.

I say junk because if: I don't use it, it doesn't work, I didn't even remember I had it, or it is unnecessarily taking up space; then it should no longer be in my life.

We take out old, worn and torn clothes, CDs, wallets, papers, scraps of fabric, stuffed animals, cables, etc.

Several days before, I took the opportunity to de-clutter my work desk by taking out old papers and other accumulated stuff. I used to use two racks to store them, now I'm down to just one 🙌🏻 and my space looks and feels better.

I tell you that every item I throw in the trash bag is a huge satisfaction 😅 Like saying, "Yes! I did it!" 😂 It's great.

Obviously, my husband had to throw some stuff out of it too. It was funny because he would stare at the item before putting it in the bag and I would joke around telling him, "Let it go, let it go" 😂 (Frozen type 😂) then I would clap it and we would laugh together.

We used three garbage bags. I estimate from the weight that between the three it would be about 10 kg 🙌🏻 I lost 10 kg! What woman isn't happy to lose 10 kg? 😂

I must confess that although the experience is always good for me, this time I had a hard time getting rid of an MP4 that my husband gave me years ago. With it, I used to listen to music, as it has quite a lot of capacity.

One day I left it charging more than it should and the battery got damaged. I tried to fix it, but nothing, so I kept it for years. In this cleaning, I took it out. I went round and round the subject. I really didn't want to throw it away. Until I said, "Yeah. I'm not going to get it repaired, I'm not using it, I'm not going to keep it."

Since I got rid of it I don't even remember it (until right now when I'm writing about it 🙈), which means I didn't need it in my life.

I want to treat objects totally free of sentimentality, and although I feel that way for the most part, I know it's a constant, conscious work.

What I take into consideration when getting rid of some things is:

💮 I have 6 months or even 1 year that I don't use it.

💮 It is taking up space that I need for something else or that I want to have free.

💮 I think well if I am really going to use it and I set a date to do it.

💮 It doesn't work, and I don't know if I will be able to repair it.

I know that at the beginning it is not easy to throw things away, and even less if there are feelings involved in it, but I can assure you that in the end you will gain more than what you are throwing away 💜