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How To Build an Automatic Decluttering Habit

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Are you finding it difficult to get rid of your stuff? Parting with our things is never easy, and letting go of stuff takes a lot of work.

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One way to ease the pain of decluttering is to do a little bit every day.  That’s how I built my own decluttering habit, and here’s my story:

My Thinking Had to Change First Even though running into the box tower was startling, it made me wake up and see our stuff for what it really was.

I looked at the quantity and the quality of the things we were bringing into the house, and I realized I needed to do two things:

1. Get rid of the stuff we didn’t need. 2. Stop the inflow of new stuff we didn’t need.

I Started With Me It was tempting for me to get rid of a ton of the extra toys we had in our house. But, as I looked at our house’s overall clutter, I realized that if I just worked on the stuff I was in charge of that would have a huge impact.

I Started With the Easy Stuff I wanted to get rid of the stuff that would make the biggest impact right away. So, you’d better believe I broke down those boxes and carted them off to the dump as one of my first decluttering tasks!

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Short Bursts of Concentrated Decluttering I only worked for 10 minutes at a time. Decluttering and made me feel overwhelmed, tired, and grouchy, but I knew I could do it for just 10 minutes at a time.

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