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Overcoming Reluctance
It's not unusual to find yourself reluctant to do this, even with Pile 3 items. A trick to help you is place the selected items together in a literal pile, or in a cardboard box and put them out of sight. Leave them for a week or two. Have you missed them? Probably not, so go ahead and get rid of them. Feel anything? That's the weight reduction. This process gets easier the more you do it. In time you can lose Pile 3 altogether and make inroads into Pile 2.
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Start Small
One way to test this idea is start small, and get rid of a few items from the Pile 3 in your life. These could be sold, given to friends or to charity. In all cases you'll reduce the 'weight' in your life and potentially add to someone else's Pile 1. Pile 3 items often include unwanted gifts, unr...
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Feel the benefits
The benefits of travelling lighter will only be felt if you actively pursue this reduction process. Many Eastern philosophies have travelling light as a central tenet, and these traditions have been around for many centuries. It goes without saying that this process benefits our planet, by reduci...
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Reduce the Stuff in your life
The idea is free yourself from some of the objects in your life. Why bother? I'll share some advice aimed at campers. Those campers carrying their gear with them while they hike around:-
On return from a hiking/camping trip make 3 piles from the stuff you took.
- Items you used ev...
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The Weight of 'Stuff'
The objects in your life all have a certain 'weight' to them. This weight takes many forms. It could be the weight of obligation, such as owning a musical instrument that you keep meaning to learn but never quite get round to. It could be a wardrobe filled with clothes that no longer fit, but whi...
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