01/12/2019
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Why decluttering your home or doing Junk / Furniture Removal should be your number one New Year's resolution for 2020
Maybe you need to downsize your home, or you find yourself single again, or perhaps you simply realise that you can barely close your drawers and cupboard doors.
As the number of your possessions grows over the years, the situation can become out of control and the weight of all these ‘things’ can feel tiring.
While going through your belongings, remembering when you last used them and saying goodbye to some of them can be a difficult process, freeing yourself of junk/ clutter now will make your life feel much easier in the long run.
Also, should the unthinkable happen, you will be sparing your grieving family and friends the burden of going through your mountain of possessions.
GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME Trust me, the more time you spend going through your belongings, the easier it will be for you to decide what you want to keep and what you are ready to part with. The aim of decluttering is not to get rid of things that make your life pleasant and more comfortable; it is to take stock of what you’ve got and, if you can’t keep track of your things, then perhaps you have too many.
LIFE IS BETTER WITHOUT MESS
In a home where you have been living for some time, it should be easy to keep some order. Even so, people still wander around trying to find their keys, gloves, and phones. When you can’t find everyday essentials it’s because they don’t have a place of their own – so give them one.
Start by sorting the whole house or apartment. Remove big or small furniture from your home to create more space. Buy new furniture with storage in them to get even more space.
CLOTHES
To get your decluttering off to a good start, begin with a category that is extensive but without too many sentimental connections, such as clothes. Take a good few hours to go through everything thoroughly and put your clothes into two piles – those to keep and those to throw or give away. There will be impulse buys you’ve never worn and clothes or accessories that don’t go with anything else. In my opinion, all garments should look good together and you should be able to mix and match them with each other. Only keep clothes you really feel you will wear or that have a strong sentimental association.
‘THINGS’
Appliances such as coffee machines, high-speed mixers and new pots and pans that fill our kitchens, while we still keep the old coffee brewer, whisk and skillets. In the bathroom, you might have ten years’ worth of facial cleansers, small hotel giveaways, eyeshadows or nail polishes. Your cabinets may be full of supplements nobody takes anymore and medicines that have expired. Even tablecloths and bed linens go out of fashion, and you replace them before the old ones are worn out.
I’ve come to realize that my vice is that I buy a lot of stuff when I'm on vacation.
It has taken me a while to understand this, but you can enjoy things without actually owning them. You can train yourself to take pleasure from just looking at them; you don’t have to buy them.
All the things I love are small and easy to give away. If you’re invited to lunch, instead of taking flowers or buying a present, give your host one of your own special possessions.
Going through your things should be a pleasure and a chance to find meaning and memory
BOOKS
I only keep books that I haven’t read or ones I keep returning to. In my case, these are mostly about art and some reference books such as a dictionary, thesaurus and an atlas. I find it easy to get rid of cookbooks, no matter how helpful they have been.
UNWANTED GIFTS
If I give a present to someone, I understand that it may not stay with that person forever. I know of people who have a cupboard full of unwanted gifts that they put on display when the giver comes to visit. This is a bad idea. If people see these on show they will only give you more! If you don’t like something, get rid of it.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sorting through photographs and letters will take the most time, so leave this task to last. So many memories come back – memories you will want to keep. However, I usually get rid of photos that are simply bad pictures. I also like to be able to name everyone in a picture because, as the oldest person in the family, if I don’t know their name nobody else is likely to. One problem for me was the number of pictures I had on slides. I spent time going through them and scanning the best into my computer and then put them all on to a memory stick as Christmas presents for each friend.
ENJOY YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE PAST
Going through your possessions should be a pleasure and a chance to find meaning and memory. It’s such a delight to look at your things and remember their worth and, if you don’t remember why a thing has meaning for you or why you kept it, it has no worth and will be easier to part with.
The more I have focused on clearing out the clutter in my life, the braver I have become. I often ask myself: will anyone I know be happier if I save this? If after a moment of reflection I can honestly say no, then off it goes. But before it does, I have had a chance to recall the event or feeling, good or bad, and to know that it has been a part of my story and of my life.
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