What Aliwalas Is
Aliwalas is an online resource for getting decluttered and organized. It aims to encourage and empower others to live with less clutter and more clarity of purpose. Aliwalas is all about creating content and community that rally around the same aspiration: clutter-free living.
What Aliwalas Means
Aliwalas is a Filipino word for which there is no direct English translation. It describes a certain quality of openness, spaciousness, orderliness, and clarity. The word is often used to describe a bright face, a tidy room, or a clear mind. It’s an encompassing term that gently encourages simplicity, making it a great word to live by.
What Aliwalas Values
Aliwalas is more than just a resource. The heart of Aliwalas lies in its values. To give you a glimpse of what drives us, here are a few guiding principles that inform the work we do.
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We declutter and organize because we value clarity. For us, minimizing clutter is an exercise in minimizing confusion. Thus, we’re doubly committed to providing our audience with concrete and straightforward content that they can easily understand and implement.
Decluttering and organizing are only means to an end—attending to what matters most. It’s not about attaining decluttering and organizational perfection. That said, we truly believe that decluttering and organizing can help others to better realize their goals and personal values.
We are responsible for the things we own and the things we dispose. We should do our best to consider how our daily decisions affect other people and minimize our environmental impact when decluttering and/or purchasing new items.
What Aliwalas Believes
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: … at time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard.” Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3:6 NIV
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1 NIV