For something to be necessary and help you fulfill your purpose and potential, it needs to be so useful, lovely, or meaningful that you must keep it. Some objects will meet those criteria. Many others will not. The reality is, in our overcrowded homes today, most possessions are not truly “belongings”—they don’t really belong in our houses anymore. They are only distracting us from the things that do belong. You’re going to have to make a decision about object after object as you go through your house to minimize it.
