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How Our Personal Insecurities Can Cause Clutter
by
Kristin
(IC: blogger)
What is holding you back from simplifying and organizing your life? From getting rid of the clutter in your life?
In the past, I have talked about how living in America alone, time, how our pasts, personal guilt, and not being able to find a place for everything, can cause clutter. Have you ever thought about how your own personal insecurities might be a cause of clutter as well?
I think that denying that we have any insecurities, is an easy solution. Denying means we don't have to deal with them, right? Unfortunately, the insecurities show themselves in other ways - like through the clutter in our homes.
When I was uncertain about the type of life I wanted to live, I found myself buying things, trying to fulfill a certain lifestyle or certain way of living. In reality, I was searching for peace, but was trying to achieve that through buying random things. By all means, I am not a big spender, but before I knew it, our house was full of supplies I never used. I wanted to be a scrapbooker: had all of the supplies, but was never caught up. I would try to keep up with the style trends, but never achieved the latest and greatest fashion looks. This was all in attempts to find who I really wanted to be. It was out of my insecurities, that I caused clutter in our home.
After a few different life situations and experiences, I learned deep down, that I wanted to live a simple life. Simple in possessions, simple in schedule, and simple in life. But what did that look like? I had to dig deep and realize that I needed to work on my own insecurities.
Since starting this organizing blog, I have found that many have insecurities that cause clutter, which I decided to share with you. These are not all true for everyone and I think there are many more. These are just a few of the big ones: the ones that I think can cause the most clutter:
In the past, I have talked about how living in America alone, time, how our pasts, personal guilt, and not being able to find a place for everything, can cause clutter. Have you ever thought about how your own personal insecurities might be a cause of clutter as well?
I think that denying that we have any insecurities, is an easy solution. Denying means we don't have to deal with them, right? Unfortunately, the insecurities show themselves in other ways - like through the clutter in our homes.
When I was uncertain about the type of life I wanted to live, I found myself buying things, trying to fulfill a certain lifestyle or certain way of living. In reality, I was searching for peace, but was trying to achieve that through buying random things. By all means, I am not a big spender, but before I knew it, our house was full of supplies I never used. I wanted to be a scrapbooker: had all of the supplies, but was never caught up. I would try to keep up with the style trends, but never achieved the latest and greatest fashion looks. This was all in attempts to find who I really wanted to be. It was out of my insecurities, that I caused clutter in our home.
After a few different life situations and experiences, I learned deep down, that I wanted to live a simple life. Simple in possessions, simple in schedule, and simple in life. But what did that look like? I had to dig deep and realize that I needed to work on my own insecurities.
Since starting this organizing blog, I have found that many have insecurities that cause clutter, which I decided to share with you. These are not all true for everyone and I think there are many more. These are just a few of the big ones: the ones that I think can cause the most clutter:
1. Desires to have a magazine cover home. I can't tell you how many magazines I have poured through, drooling over the rooms and homes on the front covers of House Beautiful, Coastal Living, Country Living, you name the "living." I realized that in looking through them, that they were causing me to be insecure. I kept thinking that my home should look like those too, in order to be organized. In fact, when I first started this blog, I thought I had to have the perfect home in order to even write about simplifying and organizing - because that is what many organizer's homes look like.
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Published May 10th, 2014 7:07 AM
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Deb Gallagher on Jun 07, 2015Felt as though you were speaking to me. Great insight. Thank you.
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Julie Bonebrake on May 17, 2017
For me, I struggle to get rid of things with sentimental value, even down to old jewelry, bad photographs and less than special kid's artwork. Is that a different category?
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