Declutter by Not Decluttering
ByI read a tip in Sarah Ban Breathnach’s newest book Moving On, about an interesting way to declutter.
She suggests photographing your hot spots of clutter. Then looking at one of the clutter pictures and figure out what the clutter is trying to tell you about yourself and your home.
What aren’t you acknowledging? What is unfulfilled? How are you feeling about yourself? Why do you keep buying certain things? What do they represent to you?
Then for a full week, look at the clutter picture before you go to bed. But, no decluttering.
By the end of the week, all that thinking about why you have the clutter will make you want to plow through the hot spot. Sarah says it’s "because your subconscious mind has been sifting and sorting all week long."
Waiting for a week, keeps you from just shifting your clutter around as you might do if you started right away.
She suggests doing one hot spot a week.
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Hmmm, interesting. I agree with taking a picture. I know that once we take pictures, clients often can’t believe it is THAT bad
I think it’s because we block out exactly how bad it is.
What is even more interesting is this – you know I have a thing for notebooks. I can’t seem to resist a pretty one. Well, this weekend I lined them all up on a bookshelf and took a picture. I want to save the picture on my phone and when I’m tempted to buy more, just look at all those gorgeous unused notebooks. I don’t even think I could get through all of them in my lifetime!