Whether you evaluate your life in terms of time or money, you are wasting both by accumulating and managing clutter(things that you don’t really need or use). I realised this once more when I had to spend time deleting mails from my gmail account and observed that I shouldn’t have allowed the clutter to accumulate in the first place. As they say, if you wish to save/conserve water then you have to first find and plug the leak. Time is non-renewable so don’t spend it on things that are useless…
Use the declutter techniques of “Not used for more than 1 year” or simply think that you are shifting your home and are moving into a studio apartment – what would you take and what would you leave? It is difficult to let go of the objects with emotions attached – Oh I bought this on this trip or so & so had gifted it to me, etc. Most difficult is the clutter of relationships we have with people. This is emotional clutter which also has to be eventually dealt with.
Self Realisation is nothing but realising that “I/Me/Mine” is the ultimate clutter that has to be decluttered, sooner the better…
Bodhisattva 