One of the biggest changes I am experiencing in this adventure, is learning to live with less. We started living in the trailer full time two months ago to learn what worked and what didn’t before we actually hit the road. And if I have learned what doesn’t work.
Stuff!
Stuff doesn’t work. And I still have too much of it. Despite months of cutting down, I feel like I am always chasing a corner. I will get the trailer spotless except for one area which takes so long to finish straightening that another area has gotten messy in the mean (I do have two kids and a dog, after all.) So I am having to learn to live with a LOT less.
Today, we basically took everything out of the trailer that wasn’t nailed down and are starting over. It is not about what fits, it’s about what works. You hear the phrase “what you need” vs. “what you want” but how often do we live it? Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s what I am going to be living. What do I need?
I do not need six purses. Even though that it is a fraction of my purse collection (don’t judge – I have a shopgoodwill.com problem), I need less. I don’t need five pairs of jeans or three different pairs of colored sneakers. My daughter does not need her entire Monster High doll collection and half of her Barbies. While she did step away from a lot, we are going to have to ask to walk away from more. Ditto for Sonny-Bunny. Not the Monster High, of course, but his ten foot high stack of video games.
And with that, I also do not need the entire Container Store I have accumulated to accommodate my house and now rolling home. If I don’t have so much, I don’t have to contain it.
So even though, I have filled trucks with giveaway, I still have way more than I need.
The above was just the most recent. We did that over and over. Clearly, I had too much but when I will have “just enough”, I’m not sure. But I am not there yet.
So tomorrow, we will be laying out the remaining belongings and reviewing them again for their needs. If it is not needed in the trailer, I then need to decide if it is worth keeping. because keeping means storage. And storage means money.
So…
Have you reached the Baby Bear “just right” place? How did you find just enough?
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