| Article Continued: Are you a craft hog? A book hog? Some other type of hog? Relinquishing your hog qualities can be very rewarding. Rewarding for your pocketbook, rewarding for your home space, and rewarding for those who may benefit from what you have been hoarding. Rewarding tips on how not to be a hog: -Clean out your hog pen. See what you have, decide what you will use, and get rid of the rest. - Stop eating out of the trough. Don�t buy more than what you need or more than what you will use, no matter how good of a deal it may be. - Be careful with scraps others give you. Only take what you will really use. It can be really easy to fill your hog pen back up with what others give you. Cleaning out your hog pen can be a difficult task for any hoarder. You will feel so good afterwards that it is well worth the effort. Take two boxes and as you go through things sort them into a sell box, and a give away box. Only keep your very favorite things, things you will actually use, or display. Everything else needs to land in one of your two designated boxes. If you have any items never used, still in the package or with the price tag on it see if you can return it to the store. If not, look over the contents of your sell box and pick a plan of action. Maybe sell on E-bay or put an ad in your local newspaper or a flyer up at the local craft store. You can sell items individually or sell the whole lot. For the give away box, a friend or neighbor may find value in things you no longer want. You can also drop off the box at a goodwill store or maybe the local senior center. If you do a good job cleaning out your hog pen, you will end up with empty shelves, empty boxes and bins. As I cleaned out my own closets I not only made big bucks on E-Bay but I had a bunch of extra shelves and storage bins I no longer needed. I gave them away so I would not be tempted to find new things to store on my empty shelves. Eating out of the trough, meaning buying more things to put in your hog pen can produce instant satisfaction, but the satisfaction will quickly wear off. A buying urge lasts only a few minutes, much the same as a food urge for something sweet. Sidetrack your mind for a few minutes and the urge goes away. If you�re in the store, take a walk around. Or buy the rest of your items and get to the car and then decide how much you want to add to your hog pen. If you have to walk all the way back into the store and stand in line again, chances are you really want, need, or will use the item. Otherwise, you won�t bother. Be careful with scraps others give you. A perfect scenario is when a friend or relative moves. You can end up with a house full of stuff that you didn�t really need or want. Be choosy when someone offers you something. Take only what you will really use or what you really like. What you pass on might be a treasure for someone else. Having less things can provide you with much more satisfaction than you ever realized. You learn to appreciate what you do have a lot more. It saves you money, by using the items you do have instead of buying more. You gain more space by getting rid of the stagnate items. You make someone else�s day by sharing. Best of all, you have less to clean, organize, and dust. The power of being non-hoggish, and more Feng Shui-ish really does promote a powerful positive energy flow. Tap into yours today! For related articles see� The Perfect Closet Cleanout Cleaning out my closet on E-Bay earned me over $1000 in 4 weeks Are you woking for your stuff or is it working for you? I made over $100 selling my old CD's & DVD's to a new web site Christmas Creativity, how not to go in debt this year |