Post-Purge Peace
I wrote recently about reading the “It’s All Too Much” book by Peter Walsh. The last month my wife and I (but mostly my wife) have been uncluttering our house. We had company in the last week, which is why this blog has been slow, and in the company filled times we’ve managed to keep our sanity due to the lack of crud to step on, things to put back, or junk to distract us. It also helps that our company are really neat folks, but that’s outside the spectrum of this post.
By getting our financial house organized (or at least making a plan) and by keeping our physical house organized we really have seen a lot more peaceful, undistracted time. I realized this morning as I watched “Clean Sweep” (the show that Peter Walsh is on) that I didn’t have the urge to go get something cleaned up because the cleaning burden has been significantly reduced to a manageable level. I have two projects left to do to help get the house where it needs to be, and when they’re done I’m going to be able to relax and work on other things that are important to me: like my wife and two daughters. I’ll have time to continue to hone our budget down to the machine it needs to be, time to do some music, and hopefully have some time to learn some new things about investing. Good stuff considering we have been overwhelmed with stuff and finances for far too long.
If your budget is out of whack and your stuff is overwhelming, check out the book and get your life in order - you’ll thank yourself!
Related posts
