Sea glass is a beautiful opaque glass. It is usually in small pieces that comes from some bottle or other piece of glass that has been thrown away and has broken in the ocean. It is then tossed about by the tides and storms at sea. Some of it eventually ends up on sea shores in different parts of the world. Not all beaches have sea glass.

It is opaque and comes in pink, brown, aqua, green, white and blue to name just a few of the colors. When we were in Fiji my daughter hoped to find some as her friend collects it and she wanted to take some back to her. It was so pretty she started to also collect for herself.

And I got in the spirit and found some pretty dark green aqua and light aqua as well as white pieces. I kept 5 pieces which I have in a sea shell in the bathroom. My daughter has a jar of the beautiful glass.

I got to thinking as a professional home and office organizer is this the way we do with our possessions? We find beautiful or interesting things to bring into our home, such as clothes, nick knacks, dishes, magazines and more and we become overwhelmed as we keep collecting and never let anything go until it is no longer a place of beauty and our possessions have taken over.

The sea glass is contained in a small jar and in a small sea shell. It has not grown as do things we buy and collect. It remains a great souvenir of our trip, it is beautiful and does not stress us as we don’t have too much of a good thing. Things can become too much of a good thing. They can take over our lives and weigh us down. Or we can stop the increase of clutter by choosing to make our lives happier and simpler.