I’m not exactly sure how I got there, but I ended up at a Ross store recently. And found these pretty things on sale:
I liked them. I liked the colors and the size.
And I remembered we’d recently broken a glass and were down to only a few of the glasses from the set I’d received a few years ago.
So more plastic cups had crept into our lives.
Cups I don’t even like.
This great little deal was an opportunity to practice the one in one out rule.
Practice = remind myself of this home-changing concept that does NOT come naturally to me. At all.
The one in one out rule means that as I bring new stuff into my home, I have to declutter an equal amount of stuff.
Have to.
Because, strangely, my home doesn’t expand just because I bring stuff into it.
So yay for getting rid of almost an equal amount of old cups.
“Almost” because I’m still not perfect.
--Nony
I much prefer those glass ones, and think things taste better from glass than from plastic. These look so grown up! 😉
Awww, no!! I remember how excited you were to graduate to real, grown-up , glass glasses!!
My sincerest sympathies!!
Those Ross cups are pretty and colorful!
the one in one out rule is such a freeing program. if it is too easy to do I look around to see if there is something more that could go.
I just listened to your book on Audible, and then I immediately listened to it a second time. It is fabulous! You’ve convinced me that this can really work!
I am 70 years old. My son is grown and married, but I’m a dog sitter now and have up to seven dogs at a time staying in my 850 square foot house with a miniscule back yard. I REALLY have an excuse to have a messy house, right?
Your suggestions, your humor, your honesty and especially your humility are gifts that you have put out into the blog world. I for one am grateful and will follow your blog and listen to your book a third time as I start on my own “deslobification” journey. Thank you!
Oh thank you!!!
I still have an excessive number of cups, jars, bottles and containers. I think it has some sort of symbolic connection in my mind to potential, or maybe they just seem like ways to contain clutter. Then they become clutter. I’ve been chucking some of the most absurd ones and replacing them with less ugly ones, but it’s a slow process learning to let go. I seem to have a misplaced notion of responsibility to make use of items that fall into my path, even when I actually have no use for them. Your podcasts and audio books are helping me change my old and unwanted attitudes, one commute at a time.
This is so good! I have plenty of ugly plastic cups, I need to declutter. And a few ceramic ones as well.
I am so grateful for your blog & books! They have helped me so much! I’ve been surprised at the stuff I’ve donated to Goodwill and threw out. I will be moving into my first home later this year, and I want to declutter all of the things that don’t matter to me, so I can bring the ones that do!
Wow, Kelly! It sounds like you are really making great progress. I made a long-distance move almost a year ago and do not regret parting with anything that I got rid of before moving. I only wish I have would’ve gotten rid of more before the move.
This is my second message today about retail therapy. Apparently, I didn’t get it the first time. This time it’s specifically about cups. I have 3, (yes, 3) new mugs stashed in a bedroom waiting to be washed and squeezed into the cabinet. I don’t know why I like mugs so much. They are part of my happy, coffee-filled routine in the morning. (One of the new ones has bunny faces all over it. Squee!) I like having a seasonal cup. I knew when I bought them yesterday I would have to 1-in-1-out something. This is my final push to either make room or take them back.