Hold on tight folks – it's about to get emotional!
This week on the podcast, I talk about how to manage items related to your hopes, dreams, and memories that are still in storage.
The Hot Mess Room Challenge
As my podcast episodes related to the Hot Mess Room Challenge series draws to a conclusion, I'm still in the middle of organizing all of my crafts! Organize 365 is my passion now so I no longer need to keep all of my crafts. It is time for them to go.
If you're in the Hot Mess Room Challenge, you've already been watching a lot of videos in my storage room. If you're not and you would like to be, click here. It's a free 28-day program with printables, an ebook, and all of the videos.
In an ideal world, I would love for my storage room to look like it should at the end of the Hot Mess Room Challenge. Guess what, though? It doesn't look great yet and it probably won't look like that ...ever.
The reason? It's often because it takes us up to 3 times or more to go through a space to get it to a point where you'd want to share the finished result with anyone, let alone announce it on Pinterest!
Tackling Difficult Memories
Our storage room is full of memories.
There are many items in my storage room that remind me of the future that I thought I'd be living.
They represent an unusual kind of loss because the items aren't attached to the loss of people or money. Instead, they represent a future that I thought I would have, but haven't yet, or that I know will never happen.
We all have hopes, dreams, ambitions, and pictures of our future that don't materialize in the ways we thought they would. It doesn't make it bad. It doesn't make it good. It is just the reality of our current situation.
Are there items in your storage that remind you of…
- The mom or woman you thought you'd be?
- The person you thought you'd marry?
- The lifestyle you thought you'd have?
- The career you thought you'd have?
- The free time you thought you'd have?
These are difficult, but important questions.
Often, we're not holding onto things for financial reasons. Instead, we feel that if we keep them, then one day that dream or ambition may come true.
Flip Your Mindset
Instead of focusing on what may have been,