Clutter Goes Digital

Aiming to live the minimalist lifestyle takes extra effort on the "effort" and "will" to live it. Read that again. It is not a brain maze but a reality.

When I skim through the social media and see posts of super tidy and clean living rooms, tidy desks, minimalist this, minimalist that, a group of my conscious and sane self always says, "I am going to do that to my room!"

But that rallying voices quiet down the moment I close the application.

Fact.

Reality.

And most likely, I am not the only one.

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My obsessive compulsion does not cover keeping everything in place apparently. Kinda skipped that job description. But that itch to madly clean up comes every once in a while. Though I wish it would come more often and hopefully less weak against the culprit that holds me back from disposing things - over sentimentality.

I go through ny stuff in hope to sift through what is still needed and what is no longer needed - papers most specially, and read through them and then my activity usually yields with none getting disposed.

Hence, the clutters get managed ineffeciciently.

Same goes with going through my clothes. I no longer fit medium and small sadly and hilarious at the same time .I can't help laughing at myself whenever I try one on, succesfully get it on and then struggle like crazy to take it off. And most of my stuff pre-pandemic, were mediums.

My best friend live by this line: if you haven't used it for a year, you probably do not need it. Give it away or get rid of it. She does her cleaning yearly.

That habit to cleanup and that mindset to keep things at a minimum takes a huge energy to will it. You have to actively be intentional about it. The switch to minimalism would be crazy for people like me.

Laughable.

Amusingly though, the digital houses - your phone, my phone, our file banks etcetra, adda up to "places that needs decluttering".

I have been having this warning for months now.

And it is not actually new. Again. I know I am not the only one. When we all first started with the sms exchanges we have "inbox full" often. We would have to delete some quoutes that got forwarded to us that we intend to forward to everyone else too once we get that budget for the unlimited text to all nextworks.

Either that or the creative effort in creating the graphic message using the parentheses and all other characters really captured us and we want to keep it in our inbox.

Fast forward to expandable memory, and being able to put in fresh set of cards in our phone, we now have that sign and these:

I have to move some to the SD card but that, too is getting filled. All my other extras are also filled.

And we are just talking about phone storage here. We haven't really gone through my USBs, my camera and all the other cards there is.

I guess we really cannot live without clutter we just have to be intentional in managing and organizing them. Unless we will have that courage to dump everything and start over which feels like re-formatting your whole being. Odd how we feel attached to these things. Amusing humanity.

And yes, battle through over sentimentality.

I need to get my butt off my chair now to free up some space in my camera. Because an event later needs space and my extras are in the other house.

Hah! Battle with letting go of some shots starts in few minutes.

How's your digital closets holding up?

Putting one up and seeing if it still gets to add more for July. Hehe.

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