3848: How to Declutter Slowly and Easily (Without the Stress) by Kalen Bruce of Freedom Sprout on Simple Decluttering Habits
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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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This is Optimal Living Daily, how to declutter slowly and easily without the stress by Kalen Bruce of freedomsprout.com and I'm Justin Malek. We're gonna get right to it as we optimize your life.
How to Declutter Slowly and Easily Without the Stress by Kalen Bruce of freedomsprout.com. When you think of decluttering, it may seem overwhelming. You have all this stuff. You're not exactly sure how you've accumulated such an absurd amount of things, but you have. All you know now is that you need less stuff. There's the KonMari method, which gets it done all at once, and that in itself can be overwhelming, especially if you drag out every piece of clothing you own and then run out of time before you're able to put it back, causing even more clutter. Many methods recommend doing it all at once. If that works for you, do it. Why we keep things. Before the how, let's go over the why and the what of decluttering.
I've read several books on minimalism and decluttering for my own sake and to help others who may have even more clutter than we did when we started minimizing. I've narrowed it down to three reasons we tend to keep things. Number one, we overpaid for something, or at least we paid a lot for something that we no longer want or need. We know we can't sell it for much, so we hold on to it. Holding on to an item we don't use that we paid a bunch of money for will only keep us focused on how much money we spent. Give it a new home. Someone else may actually use it. Number two, we're afraid we'll need it later. But we almost never do. We've given a lot of stuff away, and I would say we end up needing about 1% of it, but even then, we were able to either just do without it or buy it again for cheap from someone else who doesn't think they need it anymore.
Number three, we've attached sentimental value. This is the hardest, but it's also the most important when decluttering. It's important that we don't tie up our feelings in material objects. You won't lose memories just because you gave something away. If the item makes you happy, keep it. But if it's a burden that you keep out of some sort of obligation, keep the memory of the object and get rid of the object. Now let's move on to how you can get started. Go at your own pace. This is obvious, yes, but important enough to note. If you're in a chaotic season of life right now with kids and school or sports and a hectic work life, it's not going to be the time to dedicate two hours a day to decluttering.
But you may be able to dedicate two hours a weekend or 10 minutes a day. Do what you can. You don't have to tackle the most difficult area first. You don't have to start with a junk drawer. Anything is better than nothing, which I assume is mostly what you've been doing. Yeah, I know, I've been there. If you can only declutter one cabinet a day or one drawer or a quarter of a room, then do that. Think of what your home would look like now if you started this slow method six months ago or a year ago. But take action. Your own pace must still be a pace, and one room per decade is probably a little too slow.
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