Cleansing is Good for the Body, and Good for the Home

My wife Holly and I are preparing over the next two months to move from a 2500 sq ft house, to an 1160 sq ft apartment, which is all part of our long term plan to eventually move into a 45' Luxury Custom Motor Coach and hit the road.

To accomplish such a lofty goal, we must first pare down the contents of our house to mostly fit in a much smaller apartment, and so we are giving a lot of our furniture and nicknacks to children of ours that already have established homes, which is less than half of the seven children we have raised to adulthood.

The best part is that while we have maintained homes of at least 2000 sq ft for many years now, this will be the first time in decades that we are moving down in size by so much, so not only furniture must go, but so also must we cleanse ourselves of all the toxic buildup of life. This buildup has taken many forms, the most common ones being Tupperware dishes, and plastic cups and bowls galore, books of every kind on several shelves and many boxes, papers in boxes, tubs and bags, of things we thought for sure we would one day need and so we have kept them just in case.

After four years in this most recent home, we have a pretty good idea of how much we needed most of what we thought we would need and how much we have done without and done just fine.  The cleansing process as pertains to our home is as important as any bodily cleanse as it makes us leaner and more agile and of course helps our clarity and focus. When you have more things, than you have places for those things, it creates clutter and mayhem and our lives just don't need that any more, not that they ever did, but here is a great time and opportunity to cleanse ourselves and reduce the friction in our lives.

How often do we get a forced chance to do something like this? Most people have a hard time doing this without some sort of outside pressure to accomplish it.

We are finding the whole endeavor very liberating.  This type of cleansing is not without its emotional impact, such as deciding to move all the way down to only keeping 100 books after having had thousands at one point in my library and in boxes.

Ultimately it will be good for us to part with things that have become, through lack of need of them, useless to us, and yet, it is as difficult as changing the things we eat because we want to clean up our bodies.

Here is another stage in our progression in life and in our marriage, as we celebrate 25 years of marriage this year in October, we will find ourselves in many ways, opening a new chapter in our lives together.