Let’s assume you are decluttering your house.
Which one of the following criteria you would implement while doing so:
1. keeping things that create joy
or
2. keeping things that are useful
Enjoy 🙂
trivia: decluttering criteria
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Life as I interpret it 
I chose joy…because useful things tend to make me happy 🙂
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:))) that is a double-winner! 🙂
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This depends on the item being decluttered. My washing machine doesn’t bring me joy but it is very useful! On the other hand, pictures of my kiddos bring lots of joy but aren’t very useful.
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I loved that :))))))
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Things don’t bring me joy soooo I’ll hang on to the useful things. ;P
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very practical! 🙂
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Definitely i use both. Several tubs of keepsakes from when the children were little and a few of when i was little. I think my husbands little boy keepsakes are still at his parent’s house. Otherwise, it had better be in use or it’s gone!
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so nice! I have almost nothing left from my childhood which sometimes bother me. good that your husband’s parents are still keeping them 🙂
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it is kind of neat that my daughter, when she was a wee tot wore some of the cute dresses i had as a wee tot. she even played with a couple of my old dolls – alas, they did not make it past her. Not that she was rough when them – far from it – it’s just that the fabric was deteriorated.
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isn’t that awesome? I have heard many other stories where the kids used their parents childhood stuff. To me it is so special, so lovely. I am glad you and your daughter got to experience this. And when the time comes, it is okay to let go, too 🙂
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Both but if I had to….joy
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excellent! (joy can be challenging to find sometime-I have many stuff that give me a good feeling and I am keeping them till their effect subsidize)
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I choose joy. Almost everything in my apt. gives me joy. I don’t have much but I make sure the little I have puts a smile on my face.
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how nice Rebecca 🙂 I have some stuff I do not like that much (for example, I would like to replace my bookcases, which were second hand and do a good job, but for years I have been wishing to get nice crafted ones. I will see when this be a possibility 🙂
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I always ask “if I didn’t own this today, would I go out and buy it?”
If no, it goes
Though I DO keep a thingy of Bunny bubbles because they fit into the spatula holder 😀
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🙂 I am I guess like you; i will keep thing that I need/use as well as those that put a smile on my face, like your bunny bubbles:)))
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