Amy Revell

I think looking at your house with fresh eyes, and I'll link in the show notes to the episode around this, is really important to just wander, wander through your house and see it with fresh eyes.

What's up on the walls that you forgot you put there?

What's on the floor?

What's leaning against the walls?

What doesn't really have a home?

Because we come so just used to seeing it and it's the same thing all the time, you may not notice that you have a pair of shoes that have been sitting at the back door for three years that nobody owns because they're just always there so you stop seeing it.

It's a really smart thing our brain does because if we were to take in every little piece of information that comes, we'd be overloaded all the time.

So our brain filters a lot of that out and it just becomes this background noise.

So over time you don't see your stuff.

One of the solutions to that is to look at things with fresh eyes.

The next one I want to talk about is stuff is valuable only if you use it.

One of the biggest challenges that people talk to me about when it comes to getting rid of things is that costs me a lot of money, that's worth a lot of money, or that could be worth a lot of money to someone else.

And we can have this like value that we put on something, but that thing is just a whole lot of plastic or metal or electronics if it's not being used.

It's not valuable unless it's being used.

So what value is it bringing you?

Instead of thinking about value as just like the dollar amount you paid or the dollar amount you think you should be able to get for it,

Think of value as like, what value is it bringing you?

Oh, you're right.

I do have a digital camera at the back of my wardrobe or up the top of the linen cupboard that maybe I paid $800 for 10 years ago.

But what value is it bringing me now?