Clutter 101: The Definitive Guide To De-Cluttering Your Life
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Clutter 101 is the definitive guide to getting a grip of the clutter in your life, whether it be at home, at work or basically anywhere! Clutter 101 gives you all the knowledge, tips and advice you need to not only understand why your life gets so cluttered, but also how to get on top of it once and for all.
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Clutter 101 - James Mallinson
Clutter 101: The Definintive Guide To De-Cluttering Your Life
By James Mallinson
Copyright 2013 by James Mallinson
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Chapter 1: Understanding Clutter
Introduction
This isn't yet another stereotypical book about de-cluttering your life. I'm not going to make bold, unrealistic statements about how you can turn your home into a streamlined, simplified and efficient haven and I certainly won't promise that you can achieve it all overnight. No, this book is about being realistic. It's about proposing a practical way of de-cluttering that is easy to get into, flexible enough to suit your lifestyle and – most importantly – sustainable.
I get regular emails about people struggling to get on top of their junk, and I witness on a daily basis people wasting energy, time and money because their homes aren't organized and streamlined. If you are a regular reader of my blog, Organize IT, you will no doubt have read about some of the concepts detailed in this book before. In it I will take those concepts, expand on them and cover whole new topics as I resolve some of the questions and issues people have. Whether you are taking the first tentative steps in tackling your clutter or you have been struggling to deal with it for years and want to find a consistently effective approach, this book is for you.
Why is clutter bad?
Clutter isn't something you can avoid in your life. It's the consequence of living in an affluent society with so many things available to us and so much stuff flowing in and out of our lives. However, because we live such hectic and busy lifestyles, the level of clutter we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis can become problematic. We all know it's bad, it gets reported often enough in the media, on television shows and in newspaper articles. However, what rarely gets mentioned is why exactly clutter is so bad. It's a topic that hardly gets discussed except in the vaguest of terms (It gets in the way, what more do you need to know?
was one such example I came across) but how can you really take control of your clutter if you don't know why it's so bad in the first place? Understanding the problem is the first big step to dealing with it effectively, so over the next several pages I will detail the key reasons as to why excessive clutter is such an issue nowadays. You may be able to relate to some points and you may have no connection with others, but do understand as you read them that they all play a part in our lives.
It's a distraction
Clutter distracts you. It's important to understand that a room full of clutter will pull at your mind as though it were a fish caught on a hook. Ultimately, we as humans crave some semblance of organization and whether you are aware of it or not, your mind will always exert a little of its energy on the disarray that is your home. Clutter represents something that is incomplete in your life and even if you don't think much of it at the time or even if you