Recently I was at a friend’s huge 4 storey brand new house – with garden and skylights and all. It was a lovely place.
Looking for a larger house
Now a few months before that, we had attempted to go house hunting since the children are physically growing up and taking up more space than they were a few years ago. Squeezing 4 and soon, 5 girls into one bedroom was getting challenging especially since we can’t do bunk beds due to dust allergies.
Discontentment and decluttering
Well, that was my excuse. The truth was I was discontented with our current place, a huge flat by many people’s standards. 🙁
But as God would have planned it, I decided to declutter the house the week leading up to the visit to my friend’s place. It was a rewarding but back breaking work. It took me 5 days to clear just the downstairs portion of our 2-storey maisonette. But I loved seeing empty shelves and the freedom to walk all over the house without tripping over boxes of stuff left in the living and entrance area because there was simply no space to store them anywhere else.
Be content
And as I was given a tour around the house by the proud owner 🙂 I thought to myself. No, we really do not need a larger place. What I need is to be content first of all. Then, get better organised, be a better steward of the things I have, be creative in coming up with storage solutions and learn to stop acquiring stuff!
Stop acquiring stuff
Yes, this acquiring of stuff is the downfall of many of us. No matter how large a place we have, the tendency is to fill it up with stuff. But there isn’t a house large enough anywhere to contain stuff.
The larger a house I have, the more things and more areas I have to declutter! What a horrifying thought!
And if the Lord allows us to see our children grow up, leave the family to start their own families, then guess who would be left to handle that huge house all by herself? Yikes!
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I guess you don’t need to provide for anymore living with you, like the elderly?
We won’t like a house at all. We just want 2 extra rooms!
Samk – cross THAT bridge when we come to it 🙂
So good.