sftowne's Profile

I LOVE ALEXANDER HAMILTON! Both the historical figure (strangely enough) and your adorable dog! Also your place is lovely :)

When I first moved to apartment/city living, I was seriously unable to let go of stuff. I moved so much stuff across the country that I legitimately didn't need. (Especially old low-quality clothing I hadn't worn for YEARS, but duly shuttled around from dorm room to dorm room, box to box.) After having a preposterously overcrowded shared one bedroom for over a year, moving for the first time and purging SO MUCH STUFF was seriously one of the most liberating experiences ever. The very thought of moving used to give me actual anxiety and crazy feelings of guilt (facing the STUFF! the feeling of WASTE!) but I recently moved from a large 4-bedroom apartment (shared with roommates) into my very own generously-proportioned-for-a-studio-but-still-a- studio. I'm lucky to have a couple large closets, and have really embraced having an airy, spare main room with only a few special objects displayed. The main thing I enjoy though, is having storage space, from cabinets to closets, be accessible and useful, not utterly overstuffed with junk I never use! It's really impossible to be organized if all your storage space is packed with essentially unwanted items. I still have a tendency to give myself a bit longer grace period in discarding unused items than I really should, but the reward of having space to breathe is enough to motivate me to actually get rid of things!