having spent this morning clearing out the contents of our war-torn bedroom & systematically washing it, wiping it, desperately trying to salvage it… i can conclude this much: stuff weighs you down!

really… all the energy we put into coveting, acquiring, cleaning, rearranging & worrying about it… at the end of the day, predominantly it is just stuff…

most of what we have in our homes is not memory-evoking, sentimental or particularly precious… it’s just an accumulation of random pieces that once took our fancy…

i feel the need for a spring clean coming on… a declutter maximus… simplifying, cleansing, order restoring…

& there’s no better time than the present…

how about you?

like me, do you sometimes look around your home and feel positively weighed down by your accumulations? all the paraphernalia of life that spills out of cupboards & onto floors {the volume of which inevitably grows & grows until ultimately you need to buy more stuff in order to house the stuff you’ve already acquired}…

it’s madness i tell you… pure madness!

right, off to clean some more stuff… see you tomorrow for the sunday nook where i’m going to try & find the most positively spartan room to spur me on for my decluttering process…

image via: april and may studio