Seeing the Clutter

A few months ago, while cleaning out my basement, I came across a number of black Rubbermaid bins that were filled with my former teaching supplies. My first thoughts after noticing what was in the boxes were, "I kept this crap? Why did I keep all this stuff?!!"

I like to think of myself as being an uncluttered person, yet there were more than four large bins full of things I didn't even know were in my house. At some point over the years, my eyes stopped noticing the bins in the basement and ...