Less is more.

When I moved into the new house with hubby, I went out and bought different types of scrubs, brushes, cleaning fluids etc for the house, with all the anticipation of a new wife.

After a few months, you realise that you like one particular brand, or a particular product, and stick with it.

What about the other products?

Six months is a long enough time to use up everything you might have bought initially.

I have this strict rule at home: Buy something only when you do not have anything else that will do the same job.

So, we have this scented candle which has lost all its perfume. When we get an impulse to buy another, I make a mental note that I should either finish or throw away the old one, before we buy another.

I guess I am going to melt away the wax (throw it away) and use the glass as a pen stand.

We also have a lot of incense sticks around home. So I'm going to use them up before another scented candle enters the house.

It is so much harder to make another person understand this point of view, that I do not try much. I merely make try to lessen the stuff around us, without entering the other person's personal space.