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Simplicity Seekers Discussion Group

Join the Simplicity Seekers to discuss your organizing dilemmas, learn ways to live more simply, and know that you are NOT alone in your clutter struggles!
 
When:   Monday 6/1/2009
  
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Issue: # 27 May 2009
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Busy, busy, busy here at Room to Breathe.  We're working on big things that we look forward to sharing very soon...stay tuned.

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The Simple Life is a Green Life

Think Green

What if you could save time, save money, enjoy more "me" time, be more productive or efficient AND help the environment at the same time? 

Would you believe me?  Okay, what if I also said it was pretty darn easy too?  You and I both know that if it ain't easy, you can forget it, right? 

There's a green movement right now for sure, but today is about so much more than just jumping on the green bandwagon.  Today is about creating easily sustainable and maintainable change in your life.  For many, life is currently just too busy and the thought of change is yet another task on the to-do list. This can change if you want it to.  Are you committed to making your life and your environment better?

Green organizing is an environmentally friendly approach to professional organizing.  I emphasize the simple living portion of an earth friendly life.  A simple life is an easy life, a green life, an organized life, and a life that is purely enjoyable.  I do this through reducing, reusing, and recycling as much as possible.  Going green and organizing go perfectly together.  They play equal parts in your efforts to live harmoniously and well balanced in both your interior and exterior worlds.  They allow you to create personal spaces that are inviting, comfortable and functional. 

Think about your current spaces...what's coming to mind?  Can you visualize the way it could look in your ideal world?  What's holding you back?

It's time to think about, I mean really think about the social and environmental impact of your purchases.

There's this family, we'll call them the Jones'.  They are the family spending way more than they need to, buying useless gadgets and stuff that only collect dust, filling up every space of their large homes with useless clutter, rushing here and there from work to ballet to soccer to this meeting or that meeting, juggling family, home, and personal responsibilities.  Ahhhh, a simple life...seems like a faraway place, doesn't it?  It's a lot closer than you think.  A simple life, leads to an organized life and that ultimately leads you to a green life.

You are consumed by stuff.  Shopping for, buying, and maintaining stuff!  Enough is enough. 
 
It's time to say "no more!", you want to save money, conserve resources, you want to live and work more easily, you want free time each day to just as you please, you want to do your part in protecting your environment.
I know you have thought about this.  Maybe you've even thought that you just can't possibly live simply.  That you need all the stuff you've accumulated. 
 
For just a moment, remove yourself from your possessions.  Look around and ask yourself what you truly need for day to day life.  What brings you usefulness or pleasure?  What does not?  What collects dust, goes unworn, sits needing to be read, repaired, returned, etc?

Getting organized and going green can be daunting tasks, but doing even one thing a day or a week makes a big difference. 

The 3 R's in a green organizers world are Re-use, Reduce, and Recyle.
 
Re-Use

My biggest message to you is this:  your home, more than likely, contains all the products you need to make up good organizing systems.  Start with a walkthrough of your space to determine what you already own. Purchasing supplies should be a last resort and only if absolutely necessary.
Repurposing is huge for me. EVERYTHING has multiple purposes!  You just need to get a little creative.  Just because something has a specific purpose, doesn't mean you can't break the rules and go outside of the box.  You will give new life to forgotten, unused items that are just taking up space.

Reduce
The condition of your lives is the direct result of how you spend your time.  If you spend all your time shopping and buying stuff, you may very well experience a cluttered life.
You have to realize and understand the cause and effect relationship.  Shopping is a huge factor in clutter.  Shop at home first!  Make sure you keep all like items together in one spot...not scattered all over in multiple locations.  Go to these areas first when you need something.  Use what you have, wear it out, make do or do without.  This how Americans used to live and everyone survived just fine.  Underdeveloped countries still live like this.
 
Conscious consumption involves a change in habits and thought processes.  It involves slowing down your purchasing and asking yourself some hard questions before you purchase.

What are the downstream and upstream effects of your purchase? The less bought, the less made, the less resources consumed.  Understand how things travel to us, packing materials, and product materials.  How will I use?  What am I willing to get rid of to make way for the new item?

Maybe you're not a big shopper, but I'd be willing to bet you have gifts from friends and family filling some of your precious spaces. 

Explore the voluntary simplicity movement for ideas...ask for gift cards, donations made to charity in your name.  These are all ways you can reduce the volume of stuff entering your home.
 
Recycle
Last, but certainly not least Recycle"...throughout the sorting, purging and organizing process, think about the benefits of recycling.  Each community is different so get educated about what you recycle and keep out of the landfills.  Recycling includes non-garbage items too.  Donate items you no longer use, love, need to those that will put them to good use.  Don't be so eager to purge that you forget about where stuff is going.  Green organizing allows you to be creative and have fun.

Imagine not feeling you need a bigger space anymore.  Imagine room to breathe.  You can stay away from that big, more energy hogging house.  How much greener can you get?

Think "green" when organizing.  You will not only reduce your clutter and find things more easily; you will be helping the earth in the process.

What will you do starting today? 

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