There might be a knock on the door.

 

 

There are days when you wish there was the clamour of pots and pans in the kitchen as you open your sleepy eyes. You hate the voices shrieking in the background, talking about how late you wake up. But those are the very voices you miss.

Have you ever woken up to silence? Trudge your way to a vacant bathroom you don’t have to fight over. Reach out for that one toothbrush on the sink. Then there were days when toothbrushes were housed in a mug and the number of toothbrushes superseded the number of people in the household. The icky ones you know no one was using nut for some reason you couldn’t throw away because it didn’t belong to you. Now all there is is that lone toothbrush on the sink. You sigh. Perhaps you could get a mug to house that lone toothbrush. Put it together with the toothpaste.

The toothpaste.

For a toothpaste tube to be able to strand in the mug, you had to keep the contents equally squeezed out. But not this tangled mess that is left, squeezed only at the tummy. Then there’s the ones that squeeze it out from the bottom, getting every bit pushed to the top –but those don’t stand in the mug. Eventually when only the head of the toothpaste is filled with toothpaste, it bends over the rim of the mug and the mug easily topples over unless…. Unless!! It is held by the weight of the multitude of unused toothbrushes in the mug. Mystery solved. I’m a genius.

Done brushing your teeth, you head to the shower. Soap is a necessity. You always know what is yours and what you can discard when it’s just you. Things are much trickier when it’s not. Whose bottle of shampoo is that? Can I throw it away? But what if someone wants to use it? There’s a chance someone might want to use it. You convince yourself of that. And thus, various bottles of shampoo, soap, conditioner, decorate the icky corners of the shower.

De-clutter your life; whether it is from the unused, unwanted shampoo bottles or from the empty people. But here’s the hard part: how do you de-clutter without making for yourself an entirely empty vessel?

 

 

Decisions, decisions...