Living with less has taught me great lessons for which I am grateful and forever changed. Whatever you own or possess, you manage. Whether it be your home, a car, a dress, or even borrowing a library book...you must manage it. You must take good care of it. So the more we own, the more care we must put out. More time given to things can stress us out if we are not wise and careful. Now we need things like a house, a car, and clothes, but how many? In the past year, I have decluttered. I have either given away my "extras" or sold them in a garage sale. When I was released of these "cares" I felt better and lighter almost instantly.
The other day, I was reading out of an old children's schoolbook titled, "Story Hour Readings: Fourth Year." In it, I read a story by John Townsend Trowbridge called, "Farmer John." What a great poem about a farmer who has traveled away from his country life and his thankful return. He speaks of the simplicity farm life by comparing it to the city life. Here is a portion that stuck out to me,
"There Money is King," says Farmer John,
And Fashion is queen, and it's very queer
To see how sometimes when the man
Is raking and scraping all he can
The wife spends, every year,
Enough you would think for a score of wives
To keep them in luxury all their lives!"
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