An Easy Decluttering Exercise
An Easy Decluttering Exercise
Do you want a simple, easy way to evaluate what you need? and what you use. This is an easy exercise to do just that. It simply allows you to focus on one type of item at a time and then reveals how much you really need it.
Choose a storage spot – a utensil drawer in your kitchen, a sock drawer, or a shelf in the garage. It should be a space that already has been sorted and there is only one type of item in it. Empty the contents of your storage spot into an empty box. Keep the box nearby.
For the next few weeks or months, take out of the box anything that you need to use. Use it and afterward, put it back into its storage spot (the drawer or shelf where it started). At the end of the exercise what’s left in the box is the stuff you have not used.
Do you really need those socks you haven’t worn in a month? How about that odd utensil that you’re not sure what it’s for? I find when working with clients, that time is a great equalizer. We often pack things away that my clients are not sure about. We write the date on the box and put it out of the way. Months later those clients usually have not missed anything in the box and it is easier for them to let go of the items.
Try this easy decluttering exercise for yourself. Learn what you can live without.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.