How do I get rid of clutter?
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Try sorting through your stuff one room or section at a time, and decide to keep, donate, or throw away/recycle what you no longer need. One way to declutter your space is to cull items that don't reflect who you are right now
. In other words, you might be certain future you will have time to devote to learning how to knit, but if present you doesn't, it's time to donate your knitting needles and skeins of yarn. And while you may feel emotionally attached to items, if they don't serve a purpose, no longer fit, or are broken or worn out, it's probably best to let them go.
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Decluttering really comes down to three steps. The first step is to sort through all of your stuff and separate everything into categories. Then, go through each category one at a time and purge the things you don't want or need anymore. Finally, organize everything that's left by finding a good place for it.
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when looking at your things ask yourself if it makes you happy or if you would regret getting rid of it
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For the stuff that you are keeping because it "might" be useful one day, how easily could you replace that item if you needed to? Say it's an extra phone charging cable; I could walk into town right now and buy a phone cable for a couple of pounds, possibly for a pound in Poundland if I needed it, so do I need to keep spares? Especially as we have more than one phone in the house so there are already multiple options for charging a device.
Store it at the store is a phrase I've heard and like. If it's easily replaceable you don't need to keep the excess at your home and even if it's not easily replaceable do you realistically need to keep it? Is it even relevant in your life right now? Past you might have been into that thing but maybe you've moved on to other things. Keep only what you need now.
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Store it at the store is a phrase I've heard and like. If it's easily replaceable you don't need to keep the excess at your home and even if it's not easily replaceable do you realistically need to keep it? Is it even relevant in your life right now? Past you might have been into that thing but maybe you've moved on to other things. Keep only what you need now.
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