Actually I am going thru a nasty divorce so I guess my answer is easy … my husband of 20 years. Not to make light of the situation because I wish it were different but the man I married has vanished and left behind someone that is unrecognizable. I am choosing to look at this as an opportunity from God to eliminate the things that have stood in my way for so long so that He can make room for all the goodness He wants to pour into my life. I guess I am eliminating the negative and accentuating the positive as the old song goes. And, I am ready to step into the fullness of all I was created to be.

Good Luck, Tammy. . . . .been there and done that. But there is always TONS of HOPE. After 30 years of marriage and much turbulance, my former spouse walked out almost 7 years ago. After many years I reconnected with a former boyfriend from BYU who proposed in 1972. We were married in June of this year. Right now all my stuff is in storage as we await the sale of both homes. I am realizing that I could get rid of lots of clothes, books, papers, lots of everything. I have taken out a box or two at a time. Most of the stuff in storage has not been missed that much. (And I did get rid of about 3/4 of my stuff before I moved). . . . .Why do we women put so much value on our stuff???? Less is really more.

Well, I currently have 2 coffee tables in my tiny living room. I’m thinking one of them really needs to go!

I would love to get rid of all the organizational baskets and bins. OK..so they are full of STUFF that I need to go through first. How much stuff can we have??? I am definitely in the less is more mode right now.

Good luck Tammy. I believe you are right, God is preparing you to receive something wonderful. You will be in our prayers.

Tammy, my heart is with you. I wish you only good things in your future. My daughter Tami went through a painful divorce and I know it affects so many people.

As far as eliminating things, I agree that wardrobe purging is way overdue at my house.

Also, what to do with all the things your grown kids leave at home? They don’t want to take them with them, but they don’t want them thrown away. We had a discussion about this at a luncheon with friends last week. I can see it is a common problem.

How about books? We seem to accumulate them pretty quickly- that’s what everyone gives us for birthdays, etc. and we always buy a few before a trip/vacation. Just because we like them, we probably shouldn’t fill our house with them. How many do we actually read again?

STUFF. I know that this is a very vague category
but it is soooo “where I am” right now. Really. Less
allows us so much MORE, that I have honestly been
pondering why we “hang on/amass” so! It’s redundant
and ridiculous, and yet we live in a culture that THRIVES
on STUFF. I won’t get into the time that we’re robbed of
maintaining all of it as well! I’ll get off of my soapbox now!
I ws already focusing on this topic in my life for this month
so that I could have a “free-er Fall!” ;0) Thanks for the confirmation!
Tammy, I wish you every good and freeing thing!