George Eliot once wrote, “It will never rain roses…When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
I hear from so many readers, friends, and family that they are tired. That they are weary. That they’ve spent just as much time simplifying and slowing down as they did staying busy and speeding up.
Minimalism and simplifying does not rain down on us, and neither do those roses. To have the beautiful space that we want so badly we have to work for it. We have to plant the roses.
But we don’t have to plant our roses alone.
This past weekend my kind, passionate, beautiful friend asked me to help her declutter her closet. My friend’s home is already simplified and unbusy but she still felt there was more to do.
The closet is said to be an easy place to start when decluttering and while I do believe it is a good starting point (because most of us are so used to donating clothing) I wouldn’t say it is easy.
Clothing can be hard to listen to. Clothes still hold memories and ideas we have about ourselves.
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