My wife and I had a garage sale this last weekend.  We’ll probably have another one before summer is out if we can make time.  We’re doing a second round of purging.  We picked up Peter Walsh’s book, “It’s All Too Much!,” and its further modified our perspective on our possessions.  My wife had already done a good first round but after reading the book she’s starting a second round.  We have more stuff than is needed and its just adding to the pressures in our daily lives.  One of the points in the book is that when we have too many possessions they distract us from our handling life in a less stressed out fashion as well as slowing us down from achieving what we need to achieve.

Right now we’re spending time focusing on our finances.  We don’t want to focus on them as intensely moving forward but until they’re in order we get to.  This book has helped us understand that we need to get rid of some of the other distractions inside of our home so that we can stay sharp on the things that count.  We want to pour ourselves into our daughters lives, we want to go visit other family that counts.  Next year we’ll be married ten years and we want to take some vacation time to go have a romantic getaway together for our anniversary.  All of those require us to dump the stuff and focus on what counts.

This book gets a seven star “Shake It or Leave It?” rating!

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