i have just had a most satisfying round of cleaning and rearranging my stuffs.
seriously, when does one can stop accumulating belongings?!

you know, everytime i see my belongings, i remembered this video clip where they showed japanese living in small apartments and really, theirs is a room equipped with basic stuffs. and i mean basic stuffs! makes me feel why am i having all these stuffs in the first place?!

ok let’s have a look at these worldly belongings i accumulate over the years.

– make-up stuffs.
and im not even an avid make-up user, except lipsticks and liquid lips, i have a penchant for lips. but in any case, i have managed to sell some of them away through carousell (make-up really sells there ok), and a some i gave to my sisters and mom, and some i just threw away because i realised i am never going to wear them. so now, i only have a few fave colours and brands i have loved and used regularly.

– books
i am pretty sure i have had hundreds of books. i have totally lost count. i have also given away countless and countless numbers of books, to charity, to the library at the condo, and trying my luck selling them away at carousell.
of course, books worth of three tall bookshelves have been transported to PV. and there are still some more here at HC. and heck, i still borrow books sometimes. and i still buy books.

– knick knacks
really, i have so many of these small stuffs like magnets and souvenirs from my trips. toys, yes toys. puzzle toys, figurines of little pony, japanese dolls, notebooks, bracelets, seashells.

but i am pleased to say that i finally have the willpower to throw stuffs which are not useful anymore, doesnt give me the same joy as it had been. i mean, realy, i do not wish to be a hoarder.

and hubbylove bought a new simple chest from ikea for me to rearrange and keep stuffs kept safely nice away from eyesight. i am not only able to keep everything nice and clear, but this chest also acts like a worktable for me. where i am right now, typing away this post.

i am pretty sure you know how i felt. how liberating and mindblowing it can make you feel. clear headed. just clean. and everything at its proper place.

and i really hope i can focus on saving. because i have been very blessed to have this capacity to buy things whenever i feel like it, but it has to stop because i have overdid it. too many dresses, too many shawls (and that’s hundreds given away already too). i am not short of bags and shoes still well worn. i guess it is time to say enough, right. because i dont need this much stuff. i really don’t. and i have to give myself some credit, i am glad that i am not the type to go overboard with branded stuffs or fashionable bags and shoes. because i could go to the extreme if it isnt this willpower, even if its small tiny miny willpower, it has still managed to temper this spending power urge, heck, it is huge willpower. it’s scary how we can go to an opposite extreme if there is no knock on the head.

and let’s focus on upgrading one’s intellectual investments, instead of materials. if i don’t start doing that, this brain will get rusty and demotivated. i need to feel energized and intellectual stimulating with ideas and decisions and new information and skills. need to get moving.

and of course, upgrading spiritual needs too. i think i am ready to do some memorizing.