Laws of Stuff
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What freedom can decluttering bring to your home?
Hello and welcome to the Art of Decluttering podcast. I'm your host, Amy Revell. It is awesome to be back with you this week and just continuing this conversation that we've been having for years now about how to declutter and organize your home.
The reason that we continue to have this conversation and the reason I bring this podcast to you every single week is because there is true freedom to be found in having a home that is not overwhelmed by clutter, that is not rained by clutter, that you walk in and there's like this freedom. And you're like, okay, this is a house I want to live in. I don't feel like I'm bound by clutter, ruled by clutter. It's not controlling my decisions.
And I want you to experience that freedom. Now, for some of you, you experience that freedom after 50 episodes and some of you are brand new and you're just starting to get a hold of it now. So I'm just going to keep turning up and sharing this stuff with you because it's made a huge difference in my life and I want it to make a difference in yours. We're in clients' homes every single day of the week. And so we see, my team are out there and we see the transformation that happens when people relinquish the control that stuff has. And so today I want to talk to you about a little book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing Your Stuff by Georgene Lockwood. Now, some of you may have read this book, but within it are the 10 laws of stuff.
And I want to just quickly go through the 10, but I want to pick out a couple that I want to deep dive with you today. I think they're relevant. I think they're helpful. And sometimes just having another person's insight and view into our world of stuff is really helpful. So let me read to you these 10 different laws of stuff. The first one is the more you have, the more you need. All right, we're going to deep dive into that one. Number two, useless stuff crowds out the good stuff. And I think that is really relevant for calendars and our thinking and our processing as well as our homes. Number three is dirt and bugs love stuff. I mean, amen. adjusted intake with a client who's like, yeah, there are mice and say like, yes, yes, yes.
Stuff stays where you put it is number four. Number five is stuff multiplies to fill the space that you give it. We're going to deep dive into that and learn a little bit about Parkinson's law in that. The next one is over time, you just don't see your stuff. And you know, I've talked about that quite a few times. We're Number, I don't really know what number we're up to. We're up to something. When you have a lot of stuff, you have to pay for it over and over. So, you know, thinking about the fact that you pay to purchase it, you pay to keep it, you pay to store it, you pay to look after it. And it's just, that's just the money side of it. And then you've got your time and energy. Number seven, stuff affects your mental health.
I mean, if this year's podcast has not been great evidence of that, with bringing clinical evidence around our mental health and wellbeing and the impact of clutter, Just go back and listen to the last few episodes. Number nine is stuff is valuable only if you use it. We're going to go deep dive into that. And stuff can't buy you happiness is number 10. These are excellent. Go and read the book. There's quite a few editions of it and you can get secondhand copies online or you might be able to borrow it from your local library. The first one I want to go into a little bit more detail is the more you have, the more you need. Now, I think we can come at that from two perspectives. I think consumerism is a hungry beast.
And so as you have more, you learn about what's out there, you learn about what's available. I find sometimes if I go to the shops to get something, I'm like, oh, here's all the things I didn't even know existed, let alone that I needed. And then I start to kind of build this, oh, but I would really like that. That would look great in my home. Oh my goodness, that would make things more comfortable or easier or prettier or whatever it is.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What freedom can decluttering bring to your home?
0:02–4:15
2
What are the 10 laws of stuff and why are they important?
4:15–6:25
3
How does having more stuff lead to needing more?
6:25–7:52
4
How do dirt and bugs relate to clutter?
7:52–11:26
5
Why does useless stuff crowd out what matters?
11:26–14:08