Eliminating Clutter - Stop Creating Spaces
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 10/14/2016 1:00:00 AM
One of the leading causes of clutter is taking the phrase "A place for every thing and every thing in it's place" way too literally.
As I've said in a few other posts, the first step towards a clutter free life is to stop acquiring new stuff, and one of the best ways to do that is to stop creating spaces to hold and organize your stuff.
Try to think back in time to before your clutter started to become a problem. Chances are, you had fewer places for stuff. You had fewer shelving systems, storage boxes and containers, and you probably felt a bit less stress over where to find your stuff.
There's a pretty common pattern among people who struggle with clutter. As time goes by, they acquire more stuff than they get rid of, then instead of eliminating stuff... they look for better ways to organize it by building storage systems and buying containers. In the end, you end up with way too much stuff, except it's nicely tucked away in boxes, and containers. To me, that's still clutter, and the only way to break the cycle is to start by getting rid of the containers, which forces you to start re-thinking the contents.
In the past 6 months, I have eliminated more than 100 containers, and at least a half dozen shelving systems. I've still got a way to go, but day by day, I find more items to eliminate.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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