Does anyone else feel anxious about how much stuff they have? I'm not a boarder. In fact, I am wife ruthless about throwing out or passing on anything I don't need. I've thinned down and thinned down, yet I still feel overwhelmed by 'stuff'. Most is out of sight. Everything is packed away in cupboards or drawers. I won't settle until I've tidied away anything that is left lying around. It's tough because JP is untidy. He just takes off his work clothes and leaves them on the livingroom floor. He let's dishes pile up too. I work nights so am not around to stay inflow of these things. I come home from a shift tired, but have to tidy and clean first.
Our flat is quite small. Especially our kitchen. I try to store only what we need. To keep only those cleaning products we actually use. Yet still I feel that our cupboards are just crammed full. I constantly tidy and reorganise all our storage spaces, and again, only keep what we need. Although we have A LOT of books. Jp also has an entire 4ft by 4ft bookcase just filled with manga, and has filled the shelves in the livingroom cupboard wth dvds. I don't mind these and try not to include them when I start thinking about how much stuff there is.
Our flat is small, and we don't hoard, yet still I have this image in my mind, probably put there by home design programs on tv, that everyone else lives minimally with tidy drawers and cupboards with plenty of open space. I try to tell myself that everyone has the same amount of 'stuff' and often more, yet they just tidy it away and stop thinking about it. Yet nothing helps me. I'm constantly tied up in knots over the fact that there are so many drawers crammed with so much stuff.
Does anyone else feel like this? Has anyone overcome such feelings? It seems that whenever I tackle an area of anxiety, I find something else to blow out of all proportion.
Our flat is quite small. Especially our kitchen. I try to store only what we need. To keep only those cleaning products we actually use. Yet still I feel that our cupboards are just crammed full. I constantly tidy and reorganise all our storage spaces, and again, only keep what we need. Although we have A LOT of books. Jp also has an entire 4ft by 4ft bookcase just filled with manga, and has filled the shelves in the livingroom cupboard wth dvds. I don't mind these and try not to include them when I start thinking about how much stuff there is.
Our flat is small, and we don't hoard, yet still I have this image in my mind, probably put there by home design programs on tv, that everyone else lives minimally with tidy drawers and cupboards with plenty of open space. I try to tell myself that everyone has the same amount of 'stuff' and often more, yet they just tidy it away and stop thinking about it. Yet nothing helps me. I'm constantly tied up in knots over the fact that there are so many drawers crammed with so much stuff.
Does anyone else feel like this? Has anyone overcome such feelings? It seems that whenever I tackle an area of anxiety, I find something else to blow out of all proportion.
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