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Ownership versus freedom: what do we keep when we’re ready to move

Lita, Goddess of Growth

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What if your storage bill, your overstuffed drawers, and that unopened gear are all telling the same story: you’re paying for decisions you haven’t made yet. We explore the hidden cost of keeping—across closets, hard drives, and social feeds—and how letting go can buy back time, attention, and mobility.

I share the moment clutter came into focus, from duplicate household items still in packaging to the slow creep of digital hoarding: overflowing clouds, corrupted dongles, and the uneasy truth that our memories are on monthly rent. We talk about the dopamine rush of buying versus the drag of owning, and how thoughts about mortality sharpen the question of what we actually need. As a creator, I unpack the trap of gear for the algorithm—lights, backdrops, phones, and software that promised reach—and why stepping away from socia

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Welcome, this is Lita, goddess of growth. This session is talking about clutter. I am noticing the duplicity, the duplication. 50. There are things that I've accumulated over the years, some of them still new in packaging actually. And with people around me with ill health, unfortunately, um, you know, going through the natural cycles of life, and even with the idea of maybe one day being a digital nomad, being able to travel to anywhere in the world to work. One thinks about the items in their household, what gets left, what gets sold, what gets given away, and questions why wait until the moment that we are moving. There's so many things that we have around us that maybe we could consider if they are needed in our lives now. It's interesting how much energy and joy one has when we want to get a thing, and then we have it, and then it's on to the next one. My season of drought was from 2022 until July of this year, 25, and I really had the universe, I suppose, guiding me to make do, and even in making do, I found I had a lot of things that was just there I wasn't actually using. I still have them, and then there's my digital presence. I have a number of accounts collecting photos and documents. Every so often they tell me that the space has filled up. I pay a little bit more to keep them, knowing full well as soon as I stop paying, I've lost my material. There was a time I would put a lot of data on dongles, and then I found that the dongles ended up getting corrupt. I think they they age, do they not, due to temperature and so? I have heard a good way to keep photos, videos, and so is to actually get a hard drive of sorts and keep data there. But when you're thinking about the end of times, and I do think of it at times, there's nothing that I will be taking with me, really. What is it that we actually really fully need? I enjoy being in a space of my own. I like to have a space where I can get some mental clarity, I like to have the freedom of being without having to respond to anyone speaking to me at times. Yes, I am a social being, but I also really enjoy my quiet time and my alone time. So to have a space I can call my own and just be is really important to me. For everyone, it's different. Some people like to be in environments where there's a cafe just up the road so that they all have always somewhere to go and sit and watch the world. Things. I think as we age we notice more and more things. I successfully avoided in most instances the habit of having ornaments around my home. There are places where I have a couple of things, but not to the extent as I used to see as a child. I don't know if you're listening and you remember the 70s, 80s, every single table window, you know, had something. And as a child, when I was responsible for using the shamai and the pledge and the windoline to dust these items off, um liquid to wash them and so forth, it was one thing I vowed even then I would not be doing ornaments actually, but even without ornaments, I started on social media, I started getting lighting, this and that, and it's it has not escaped my attention that I have items that often just stare at me, and it does get to a point where you feel as if you're hoarding, because even with social media, you go through seasons, there'll be times when you might want to use a backdrop, you may want to use a certain kind of lighting, a certain phone, things are moving so quickly, and we're all trying to find our way, and then you get these pieces of equipment that you just had to have because this was in trend, this is going to help you do better software packages to help you do a great post or so. And in my departure from social media, which took place by beginning of July, say, I find myself with quite a lot of stuff, quite a lot of stuff, which just now needs to go away. I am going to return to social media, and I think it will be an interesting experience when I do. At the moment, I am building my foundation for my creator network, spending quite a lot of time building my website, doing some blogging, and just really building my presence online. I'm learning a lot more about search engine optimization, I'm looking into the affiliate marketing, loads of things because I realized when I was on social media, that base and that connection wasn't there. It was like the cart coming before the horse, really. And now I've had to roll back and build from the bottom up, and in building from the bottom up, I'm noticing more and more stuff. So I suppose the task forward is to really curate what it is I'm going to need probably for another six months or so. Technology is always changing, social media is always changing. Some things stay the same, but the majority of it is change. And some way, somehow, I also need to take time and start, or shall I say, continue deleting all these photos and videos that I've accumulated, especially since 2022, when I started my social media journey going online five, six days a week? It's a lot. Doesn't justify me keeping the videos though. So, how much are you keeping as clutter? And we are talking about photos, screenshots, videos, household items, clothing, makeup. Maybe it's time for me, for you, for us to start letting some things go if we're looking to free up our lives so that we can be in the best position so that any travel opportunities arrive, we're able to just get up and go. Let me know your thoughts. Do you join me? You've been with Lita, goddess of growth. Please do check out the links down below, and I'd love to have and hear a comment from you. Thank you for joining me. Have a good one.

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