Ok — I have a big confession to make – I am a CLOSET HOARDER.
That’s right – I hoard – not a lot of things – only specific things that I really want to make sure I have on hand when the desire strikes.
Over the last two months I’ve been on a massive massive PURGE of all my stuff. I went through the whole house from top to bottom and got rid of a whole bunch!
Let me tell you what I hoard -
Freeze2000 Hairspray – They stopped making this hairspray back in 1999. I still have more than a dozen bottles of the stuff in my bathroom closet – it’s the ONLY hairspray I’ve ever found that I like and that works for me. Unless the house burns down (which I’m DEFINITELY NOT INVITING) I’ll probably still have a bottle or two left well into my 60’s!
I wonder sometimes about this – is it strange to be hoarding hairspray?
Is there something (or maybe more than one thing) that you are HOARDING?
I’ve noticed in my medicine work with some of my clients that the “scarcity” mentality is really deeply rooted – in fact when working with one of my clients Nancy Knettell – we were working on an issue and this whole scarcity piece came up and we tracked it all the way back to the time of the cave dwellers.
Nancy, who’s now gone on to create a magical and magnificent program (Why Not Make Millions? – she’s got a preview call on Oct 22 you might want to check out!) did some very powerful generational energy shifting in our work together and the unwinding of this deeply (and I mean how far back can you go?) embedded into the DNA “scarcity” programming in her soul matrix has really made a huge huge difference for her in her sense of her capacity to really truly dream her life into being in the most powerful and impactful of ways. What’s even more beautiful is she is going to now take her restored empowerment and use it to help even more people to step into their own – how cool is that? I love it when you see the “pebble in the pond” effect that the medicine work has! Here’s a link to a video Nancy made for me sharing a bit more about her shifts:
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/video/video.php?v=174468339501
Let me know about your hoard – if you have one – please leave a comment – it will be fun to see what we all have chosen to hoard and maybe even more interesting to see the motivation behind it (for me – I guess it’s a beauty thing – I can’t help it – I really enjoy beauty – it feeds the soul – and like anyone else when I feel like I look beautiful then my light shines even more brightly – and I have hair that can be VERY uncooperative – although I’m incredibly thankful that I do have hair – there are some who are not so lucky!)
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October 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Nancy Knettell -- The Money Queen
I am a closet hoarder too. Sooo funny… I hoard all sorts of stuff, but my husband will agree that my worst hoarding is shoes. I have a wide foot so it is hard for me to find shoes. So when I find one that fits, I will often by two or three of the same shoe. And if I have a favorite pair that fits but is really out of style and should be tossed, I keep them around for years. It is a big deal when I finally get rid of my shoes. Amelda Marcos and I are twins separated at birth I think.
October 7, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Janice Masters
I was a hoarder of the first order…pretty poetic, right! LOL I live in Florida, no basement/no attic, and when my husband and I decided a few years ago to go room-by -oom and purge before we painted and did some remodeling, I began to love the resulting spaciousness and order more than the illusory security of hoarding. I really allowed myself to enJOY the releasing process (Hurricane Andrew had prepped me for that many years earlier!) and have gotten very attached to the space and the order.
Food–dry goods, was one of my major hoards. And favorite shampoos. Even comfy walking shoes that I MIGHT not be able to find again!
Thank you for reminding me of how healed this is for me. I’m in deep appreciation right now of something I had come to take for granted—in a GOOD way!
Love you Amethyst!
Jan
October 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Susan Sloane
Oh Gawd, for me it’s books! The classics, Shakespeare, philosophy, all kinds of non-fiction, but mostly books on Spirituality. Sacred texts of any and all belief systems/religions are interesting to me, to find the common thread.
I have so many books I’ve puchased over the years, intending to read, and have never even opened, that during this last clean-out I’ve boxed up 4 full boxes to donate! Had I read half of these incredible works my brain might’ve grown a few sizes! LOL!
October 14, 2009 at 9:16 am
amethystwyldfyre
Oh yes!! Books are on my list too!! I just donated an overflowing box of metaphysical books to a new shop that will have a lending library!