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| ...less hot flashes! Wow, I never thought that the side effect of simplifying would be a reduction in hot flashes.
When I was reading Elaine St. James book this morning " Living the Simple Life" I got to her area on watching for early warning signs of wanting to buy. To paraphrase, among them were " you feel a slight palpitation of the heart, the pulse starts to quicken, you feel a rush of adrenaline. Part of you wants to hold back and another part is reaching for your credit card." The last few days I have been experiencing less hot flashes and was trying to figure out what I was doing differently, when I came across her words and thought...THIS IS IT ! |
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| Thanks, Brug. A great message for me, too. |
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| I don't buy anything anymore unless I know where I am going to put it and what I will be getting rid of first. I have been doing that for the last year or so and has helped greatly. |
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| I don't buy anything anymore... unless we are going to eat it or burn it. Gotta laugh, Lena |
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| Every time I hold a new object in my hands, whether it be something I am thinking of buying, or a gift from someone else, I ask: "Is this going to become clutter?" If the answer is no, it is allowed into my house. After all the years I spent living with the misery of clutter, and all the work it took to get rid of the clutter, I don't want it back. I don't want to swap old junk for new junk. |
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- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Sun, Jul 13, 08 at 18:07
| Once upon a time I vowed to zero my credit cards. I didn't buy anything but kids' clothes if they changed sizes. I wiped out a ton of debt, changed my spending habits long-term, and made tons of progress on my decluttering. I'm seeing some of my old spending habits creeping back; I'm hoping that bcs I now feel broke from vacationing in Hawai'i I'll find it easier to just not buy stuff. |
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