Organizing your stuff is different from decluttering. They're both fine to do, but if you need/want one, don't trick yourself into accepting the other. [snip] Organizing can hinder decluttering. It helps you pack stuff into small spaces more efficiently, it helps you procrastinate yet still feel like you're doing something, and sometimes it encourages you to go out and buy more stuff (boxes and labels and organizer trays)...
Oh, wow. I never thought of trying to do one without the other. I always looked at it as "I'm going to clean up this section of the room," or "I'm going to straighten out that closet" with the idea of organizing and decluttering as I went. Needless to say, often neither gets done -- or everything gets sorted and stuffed away somewhere without the get-rid-of-pile. I've also tried the "three cartons" method -- one that goes out of the house, one that's "maybe" and one to keep. But it still requires going through an entire area thoroughly.
I'm not sure if this is what the author meant, but what it made me think of was going through whole areas of the house and just picking out stuff to get rid of, without trying to organize or sort anything else. Then I'll have a smaller amount to deal with when I do get to organize. I never even thought of that before, but it would give me quite a jump-start.
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Oh, wow. I never thought of trying to do one without the other. I always looked at it as "I'm going to clean up this section of the room," or "I'm going to straighten out that closet" with the idea of organizing and decluttering as I went. Needless to say, often neither gets done -- or everything gets sorted and stuffed away somewhere without the get-rid-of-pile. I've also tried the "three cartons" method -- one that goes out of the house, one that's "maybe" and one to keep. But it still requires going through an entire area thoroughly.
I'm not sure if this is what the author meant, but what it made me think of was going through whole areas of the house and just picking out stuff to get rid of, without trying to organize or sort anything else. Then I'll have a smaller amount to deal with when I do get to organize. I never even thought of that before, but it would give me quite a jump-start.
Hmmmm.......