Lol...thank you! I'm really into self improvement, so I like to find different ways of understanding myself and pushing my boundaries. I can feel a bit stagnant if I'm not working on some aspect of myself. And I love a big project : o)
I'm with you on the house redecorating front. I just have very straightforward taste, I like very simple things, very plain. And it's never really changed over the years. So the things I like don't tend to date much.
I've been in my little house 25 years and have had three sofas in that time. The first, and inherited one that was past its best. The second, which broke after many, many years, and the third is only a year or so old now. Two have been ivory, this current one is grey.
And I've only ever done the kitchen once. I just used the cabinets that were already there for many years.
Clothes and shoes, I've been looking into the things i've bought that fitted into the 'fantasy self' or 'fantasy life' category. I've decluttered a lot, maybe even most, but I still have too much of this category of clothes and accessories.
Granted, when I met my now ex-h, we would go out a lot. And we would get really dressed up a lot. But that's 20 odd years ago now, and I was still in that mindset for a good while after our life changed...for whatever reason. My life now is very, very different. I hardly go out, or not enough to warrant the amount of 'going out' clothes that I had, or maybe still have. I spend a lot of time working, either on my own, or in a public facing role. For the public facing roles I do, the 'uniform' tends to be casual black. And when I'm working on my own, I'll be in gym stuff because I'll be going to the gym at the end of my day. The little rest of the time that's left, I'm a jeans and top girl.
I just have so much MU and skincare that I don't need more. And I need to use what I have - and use it completely. I noticed that I had a habit of almost finishing something, and then keeping the rest, 'just in case' or to remind myself how much I liked it.
I also have a terrible habit of 'keeping things for best'. But have you any idea how long it takes to use up an eyeshadow? Or a lipstick? If you only use it/them a handful of times a year, they'll expire before you've used them much, enough, or even used them up at all.
I don't know where the 'keeping things for best' came from. But it reaches out into all areas of my life. Anyway, time to actually use these things if you like them and they make you feel good, and get all the use you can out of them, while you can.
I have loads of travel samples too, foil packs of things ripped out of magazines, gifts with purchase of MU and skincare...these things are all taking up space in my house. And they're taking up mental space as well. So it's time to use them up, and it's easier to just do it methodically.
So I've separated out all the shampoo, conditioners, moisturisers, foundation samples, etc foil packs from magazines, skincare GWPs, travel sizes, into their respective categories and lined them up in my bathroom cabinets. It may take time some time to use them all up...