Making Your Home A Haven of Memories

There's so much freedom and contentment in realizing you already have enough. ❤

Finally after the age of 74 I now know I HAVE ENOUGH. I have only what I love and NEED. ITS SO FREEING🤗😀

16 yrs ago, we were forced to leave our home of 24 yrs in Venezuela. We lived in an isolated village, no roads . We entered by 2 weeks on canoe or 2 hrs in a Cessna. We had to leave almost every thing behind. It really made me stop and evaluate what really mattered. At the time, that happened to be my children and a few handmade furniture pieces my husband had made from a fallen cedar tree. He used an attachment to make planks and then built our table and benches. It was the center of our home. We ate every meal there, played games there, home schooled there. We sat with friends and learned the language there. My husband worked on Bible translation there. We had to get it out with us and we still use it today in our dining room.

A widow of 3 years here,and this is an answer to my prayers just this morning, trying to figure out more how to make my home one that is best for where I am now.thanks so much!

At age 66, we had accumulated a lot of things and stuff. We downsized a lot to move into our little house, but we kept items that hold meaning and memories. Even the art on our walls came from my parents’ home. I agree, minimalism doesn’t have to mean not keeping anything, but being intentional and practical about what we hold on to. ☕️🇨🇦☕️

Moving home directed me towards intentional living. I removed 120 bags of accumulated stuff from my home and into the charity shop. I found a community of people who dislike the idea of landfill and gave items away freely. It was wonderful to see people find new joy in stuff that no longer served me. I also realised a lot of my items were keeping me in a painful past. My favourite item in my home is a wide vase of shells that depict all the times my husband and I have visited beaches in our time together. I can see it from my favourite chair, and it reminds me how lucky I am to have this life.

We downsized our home when we moved back to our hometown to be closer to aging family. We knew this would be our forever home, and we do a twice-a-year-purge to try to keep the clutter to a minimum. I really like your recommendations. ❤

I spent far too many years and dollars trying to decorate and fill my house with items I was told that I "needed". Once I got well into my 50's, I decided I didn't want or need most of the stuff we had accumulated. Most of that stuff served no useful purpose in OUR lives, was aspirational, was not being utilized, was bought only because "everyone else has this item" so we had better get one, was no longer my style, was not necessary and so on. I've been decluttering for at least 5 years and I keep a running total each month of the number of items we declutter and that total number is beyond staggering. I know I'll never stop decluttering, but as I've strengthened my decluttering muscles, the less grip stuff has over us. It has made us realize how very little we truly need, how much more content we are and how much more peaceful our home has become.

My in-laws had a barn that was over one hundred years old. It had to come down. We were fortunate enough to have a large dining room table made from it. It’s my prized possession!!❤

i’m 36 & just want to say thank you - i’ve all ready somehow reached the point of wanting to purge almost everything except sentimental things ( but i have too many of those - i’ve lost lots of loved ones ( including parents - brothers etc etc ) but im not using the stuff and hardly look at it !! i’ve found taking pictures makes me feel better in the moment & i never go looking for the photos again .. its all just stuff at the end of the day & wont go with you ….

Getting rid of the excess was the best thing I ever did for myself. I think of clutter as things that don’t add value to my life. If I only thought in terms of need, my house would be stark and cold.

❤ this. Been minimizing for about 8 years now. Home is now a reflection of who we really are. Less is more and there is no need to think your “Rome” needs to be built in one day. Take your time, adjust and subtract what you don’t love and find just the right thing(s) that suit you . Stay authentic to your life and home becomes a sanctuary you want to return to time and again.

I want a Haven of memories. ❤❤❤ My home is my happy place.

That coffee table is really cool.

Thank you! I like the way you put the feelings into words.

what I do is this: Fewer bigger things. Easier to clean, and it makes a room look much better, as opposed to a lot of little things. "Visual noise" is what I call having a lot of "stuff" or a lot of little things. (A carefully displayed beloved collection is different and just fine, in my opinion).

Love your videos. I enjoy listening to your take on life and your experiences.

I agree with so much of what you say. And it’s so refreshing to hear it from a regular guy. Press on.

Greetings! I’ll be 60 years old this year and God willing I’ll retire from work next year. I have declutterred most of the staff that I owned but now I’m in process of downsizing more and I’m at the stage of getting rid of things that I moderately care about. It’s a little hard but hope to accomplish this. Thanks for your videos! Blessings always 🙏

Whatever is good, whatever is true, and whatever is beautiful. These are the categories of things I bring into or keep in our home. The good are those precious pieces of art gifted to me by my children (and now, grandchildren) when they were little. The true are Catholic religious items (Crucifixes, holy water fonts, and framed religious images), and the beautiful are paintings by famous artists, etc. We also keep a supply of good, true, and beautiful books. If something doesn’t fall into one of these categories, then it doesn’t stay in our home:)