An update~
Dec. 7th, 2012 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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unclutterI want to thank everyone who has mentioned Unfuck Your Habitat on here. It's changed my life.
Moving into my own place has been... exhausting and stressful and now I totally understand why one co-worker told me I'd still have packed boxes after a year. (I thought she was joking!)
But the reminders on there, along with the concept of 20/10s, have kept me motivated most days. I'm also looking much more critically at what I'm hanging onto, especially the really random stuff. Throwing things away has gotten so much easier, especially since I live alone now and no one is judging my garbage. I've got a good pile of books going to donate to the library book sale. I've packed off multiple boxes of clothing. I finally managed to get rid of all the socks that didn't fit quite right but I've been hanging onto for a decade anyway. I'm organizing and sorting and it feels really good. All my stuff is in one place for the first time in years, and I'm actually learning what I own compared to what I thought I had.
There's still a lot of clutter, and a lot of things that just don't have places yet, but I've made so much progress.
Also - putting things by the door = easiest way to actually get them out and where they need to go to. Cloth shopping bags get hung on the doorknob immediately after being emptied so that they get taken back to my truck. And anything that needs to go anywhere/along gets tucked in one, unless its better in a basket/box. I know this sounds ridiculously simple, but I had to figure it out, because I was just tucking all the bags together in the kitchen and then never having them when needed.
Moving into my own place has been... exhausting and stressful and now I totally understand why one co-worker told me I'd still have packed boxes after a year. (I thought she was joking!)
But the reminders on there, along with the concept of 20/10s, have kept me motivated most days. I'm also looking much more critically at what I'm hanging onto, especially the really random stuff. Throwing things away has gotten so much easier, especially since I live alone now and no one is judging my garbage. I've got a good pile of books going to donate to the library book sale. I've packed off multiple boxes of clothing. I finally managed to get rid of all the socks that didn't fit quite right but I've been hanging onto for a decade anyway. I'm organizing and sorting and it feels really good. All my stuff is in one place for the first time in years, and I'm actually learning what I own compared to what I thought I had.
There's still a lot of clutter, and a lot of things that just don't have places yet, but I've made so much progress.
Also - putting things by the door = easiest way to actually get them out and where they need to go to. Cloth shopping bags get hung on the doorknob immediately after being emptied so that they get taken back to my truck. And anything that needs to go anywhere/along gets tucked in one, unless its better in a basket/box. I know this sounds ridiculously simple, but I had to figure it out, because I was just tucking all the bags together in the kitchen and then never having them when needed.
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Date: 2012-12-08 04:57 pm (UTC)I have an older TV, but I mostly want something to play games on, so I need a decent-sized HD, alas. I just have a hard time with 'big' purchases, so I've been stalling more than anything. ('still saving up' seems to be the excuse I give myself)
(And it's going to be 'clean the kitchen' day instead, because I somehow managed a soda-splosion and everything is sticky...)
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Date: 2012-12-08 05:17 pm (UTC)They don't sell large HD tvs secondhand?
But saving up IS a good excuse, I think :P It gives you more choice in TVs the more you save up, so you can decide which one you like best (and then it doesn't even have to be the most expensive one). Maybe you could wait until there are sales (I don't know when there are sales for TVs in your country, but maybe before or just after a large sports event)?
Good luck with cleaning then!