Do you have too much junk in your trunk?
What about your closets? Your drawers? Your life?
Space is at a premium in many areas we inhabit. Our social media feeds are peppered with tips on controlling clutter. Dejunking is a hot topic on podcasts, TV shows, news feeds and in conversations with friends. You can hire a company to do it, get a professional organizer to walk you through the process, or grab a box of garbage bags (or a dumpster) and dig in.
Get rid of three things each day, use the two-year rule (if you haven’t used something in two years, get it out of the house), and only keep what makes you happy. Decluttering strategies are so plentiful that they can seem like clutter, too. So many ideas, so little time.
At the risk of adding to the jumble, we came across an essay that covers many of the basics we should cull from our lives and a few that aren’t so obvious. Have you decluttered your finances, social media, relationships or grudges? Is your stuff, in all of its forms, keeping you from living your best life?
Getting rid of uncomfortable shoes, chipped cups and expired food is relatively easy, but why not extend the cathartic impact of tidying other areas of your world? A junk drawer cleanout is one thing, but tidying messy money habits and the baggage we carry in our headspace is more complicated.
If you need ideas, an essay on the website Be More with Less gets you started with not only what should go, but why.
