“What is causing you to put things down "for now"? Are you feeling too rushed in your everyday life? Is there never a chance to reset?
As you go through the process of clearing out your clutter, you will see that things become easier to put away when there is a home for them and that home is easier to access.
When you are tempted to put something down, ask yourself, "Will I really have more time to deal with this later? Will I know where to find this later when I'm looking for it?"
Be kind to your future self and put it away now. Next week you will thank me.”
Source: Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space
“Home is defined very aptly as “Mother as the Foundation & Father as the Roof”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“The purpose of home is to make ourselves comfortable not to impress others.”
“You travel around the world only to come home, they say. Stay where you are and
make it home.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Home was perhaps just this body I inhabited and this too was alien to me at times, its folds and creases, its pains and needs. Home was everywhere and
nowhere. Home, I realised now, was anywhere the heart slept in peace. Home was where one unpacked one’s cares and settled them into the wardrobe with one’s clothes. It was where one was complete.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen.”
Source: Infinite Country
“The nicest building in Patrice’s life was Lena’s Food Market off Fond Du Lac Avenue. It had shopping carts, bright fluorescent lights, and a buffed linoleum floor. Her white friends called it the ghetto grocery store, but it was one of the better markets on the North Side. And at Lena’s, Patrice never felt her existence questioned. She tried not to go to parts of the city where she did. Patrice lived four miles away from the shore of Lake Michigan: an hour on foot, a half hour by bus, fifteen minutes by car. She had never been.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“She sipped her old-fashioned. Sweet and light, with notes of orange and the herb-spice flavor of bitters, all of it balanced with the subtle burn of brandy. It tasted like Wisconsin. It tasted like home.”
Source: The Kindred Spirits Supper Club
“Creating a home on purpose frees us to do the things we really want to do.”
Source: Love the Home You Have: Simple Ways to…Embrace Your Style *Get Organized *Delight in Where You Are
“It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.”
Source: Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales