It is so easy these days with just a couple clicks on your phone to have something delivered to your house (thank you Amazon prime) when things get broken or stop working. This weeks challenge is think back to the mentality of your parents, grandparents, great grandparents. They didn’t just throw things away. They repaired them if they could. Nowadays it is even easier with YouTube videos available to show you how to do practically everything. BUT I repeat BUT if something is beyond repair, you don’t want to/not going to repair it GET IT OUT of your house.
Easy Challenge: Walk around your house and identify 1 item that needs repaired or thrown out/donated that would take less than 5 minutes to do. Then do it. Repair it (for example: replace the batteries), put it in the trash (for example: cracked plastic bowl), or put it in your car to donate the next time you go out (for example: clothes that don’t fit that you have just in case).
Medium Challenge: Make a list of all the things in your house that fall in this category. Then write down what you need to do with that item and when you will do it. Treat it like a bandaid and your goal is to have it all done in a month.
Hard Challenge: This is for the stacks of boxes around their house/garage and keeping it just in case even though it’s broken and will never use it. If you will not use it or repair it in the next 3 month GET RID OF IT! I know this is hard from personal experience helping others, but you will feel so much more in control of your life without being surrounded by clutter.
““Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”
Matthew 6:19-21 NLT