You don’t need to be more organized.

You need less stuff.

Limits help us realize how much is enough.

Limits make us conscious of how we spend our time.

Limits set boundaries.

Limits assist us in choosing what to include and what we can let go.

Allow the discipline of limits to create space for the life you really want to be living.

Your home is not a storage unit.

Your home is not the garbage dump.

Your home is not the store.

Your home is not a holding place for all of Justin Case’s things.

If you don’t love it, use it, or value it enough to display it:

Let it go.

While organizing: If you can’t can’t think of a place to store something, you probably won’t remember that you actually own one.

If you don’t know where you’d look to find an item, perhaps that’s a sign you don’t really need to keep it.

Organization isn’t about storage; it’s about knowing where something is when you want it.

The gift that is.

Make at least one part of the gift giving process easy.

No measuring, cutting, taping, fiddling with ribbon, find a matching bow, storing half used rolls, etc. etc.

Gift bags come in a variety of sizes, are reuseable, and speed up the whole wrapping process.

Choose to make this part of your Holiday activities as simple as possible.

Spend time with the people you love, not time wrapping their gifts.

Burn the nice candles.

Eat the good chocolate.

Use the soft towels.

Wear the new sweater.

Open the gifted bottle of wine.

Stop waiting. Treat yourself. (You’re worth it)

Your To BE List is more important than your To DO List. Lauren Rosenfeld

Focus your attention and effort on your TO BE list.

If you can’t think of a home for a certain item; maybe you don’t need to keep it.

If you wouldn’t know where to look for something; you probably wouldn’t remember you own it.

It’s tempting to keep things ‘just in case’. But, if you want to live with less clutter and less chaos; things need to have specific homes. You need to be able to easily access the things you want, need and use. You don’t have enough space to store everything-just in case.

Live with less and trust that when you need something you’ll be able to find it in your home. Or that you’ll have a reasonable substitute. Or you will have the means to acquire it.

Try living with less to have more of a life.

Your space is limited.

Let Costco or Fred Meyer or Target keep things until you actually need them.

Sure, it’s good idea to have things on hand.

Back ups of frequently used or edible items.

It’s not such a good idea to have so many of an item that your closets, pantry, or cupboards are overflowing with multiples.

Purchasing in bulk or multiples is only a good idea if you use the items in a timely manner and you have adequate space to store things.

Three three packs of pasta sauce taking up room on the shelf doesn’t make sense if you only have pasta once a month. Twelve rolls of paper towels take up a lot of storage.

Giant economy boxes of things that get stale before you eat them aren’t a bargain.

Try coming from a place of abundance and trust that you can get what you need when you need it.

You don’t live in a warehouse, or a store. You live in a home. Do what you can to make it feel like one.

There really is a limit to the time in your life,

the space in your house, 

and the energy you have to give.

Make conscious choices about how you spend your time.
Looking at a screen, or looking into someone’s face?

Making more money or making stronger connections?

Buying stuff or having experiences?

Ask yourself “How much is enough?”

More is often just that, more.
Five of something isn’t five times better than one,

it’s one, five times over.

The more stuff you have the more you have to store,

maintain, keep track of, keep organized, 

justify and use.

Use limits to help you buy fewer items of better quality.
Choose activities that you actually enjoy.

Spend time with people you honestly care about.