Transformers.  Robots in disguise.  Because they totally look like something else.  But they don’t just look like something else, because they actually operate in their “undercover” state!
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Some unclutter divas (ok, me) don’t believe in owning single use items.  Like how my sofa also stores books and my bed has two built-in drawers.  Or that my toaster, the most amazing toaster in the history of ever, makes toast AND hard-boils eggs AT THE SAME TIME.
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(And don’t even get me started on all the awesome things you can do with a hammer!)

The idea being that functionality is not one dimensional, that an object can serve multiple purposes, and that versatility is a virtue.

Embracing this mindset allows people to keep their non-sentimental items to a minimum, which then frees up oodles of time to do more important things.  (Like changing the world.)  It’s less time spent cleaning, organizing, managing, maintaining, and hauling from house to house.  Less money spent on one-use kitchen gadgets that never see the light of day.

Yet, sometimes in our ruthless drive for efficiency and functionality, we can overlook the most elemental utility of all:  the capacity to evoke the human heart through beauty.

We focus on time management and productivity and frugaliciousness but living in beauty is equally vital to our well-being.

“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”

- Kahlil Gibran

It is said that beauty is simply reality seen through the eyes of love.  And shouldn’t we be surrounded by things that reach through our eyes to our heart?  Mindfully choose possessions which will inspire and awaken our spirit?

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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