What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?

I love the idea of organizing everything. Sometimes however it stays in that phase: idea. 😉

Having lived in our home for going on 13 years now, it’s amazing how much stuff accumulates. Not so much that me and mine are hoarders (okay maybe a little) but because of time constraints.

Pre 2020, I spent so much time working that when I wasn’t, we prioritized play time together. Then year after year, things started stacking and then piling up.

Then I got pissed.

So by post 2020, things had to go or else I was going to go Tasmanian devil crazy slinging everything straight into a trash bag or bonfire.

I’m sure you can see how that could make for some hurt feelings. My rage about stuff could and often was misconstrued as an insult to the emotional weight all of the stuff carried for all of us. After all it wasn’t just “stuff”, they were things that captured memories in physical form.

I touch on this in Toys are Totems.

To help us, and to not be a jerk about it, I came up with the four S’s as a way to mitigate the mess.

Sort: Go through things with intention. Do you really want it or is it just crap, or worse just junk that really should have been thrown away.

Store: You truly love it or know you will ACTUALLY need or use it, put it somewhere where it’s safe and accessible.

Sell: It’s hard throwing away money. In having decided that it’s not really a keeper, turning a buck in a yard sale, online like eBay or the like or maybe a local flea market vendor or even your own booth.

Share: Give it away. Let it go. Donate it to a thrift store that supports a worthy cause in your community. Clear the clutter all the while knowing you’re genuinely helping someone else.

In implementing this strategy it’s made for a lot of great strides in our quality of life, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

I hope this one can help you too. So much so that it’s one of the vertebrae of the backbone of my book. I’m that committed to it as a pragmatic philosophy.

Plus it feels good.

Now, Go Play!

Jim 07/09/2025