Clutter Control

Your efforts to control the clutter in your life can only be achieved if you balance what comes into your space with what goes out of your space.

In today's abundant world there will always be more things to own than you have space for. However, once your space starts to fill up you will need to start balancing what comes in with what goes out.

People who practice organized living control the amount of stuff coming into their space.

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Where Does Clutter Come From?

Clutter does not come to visit you and then forget to go home. You invite it into your life with your lifestyle, habits, and daily decision making. It is important to understand how you invite stuff into your life and your space.

Here are the most common ways that you get stuff:

• shopping
• gifts
• free stuff and give aways
• other people's stuff finds its way into your home (or maybe it never left!)
• the mail

Fortunately each of these factors is controllable. You just have to understand how they operate in your own life. If you control what comes into your space you are less likely to accumulate clutter.

Controlling what comes into your life is only half the equation as you must also regularly edit or purge the stuff you already have. What comes in must be balanced by what goes out. And that means regular and systematic purging.

What is purging?

Used as a verb the word purge means to become more pure! The real meaning of the word is that impurities are cleansed away or undesirable elements are removed. That is precisely why this word is used in organized living.

Purging your stuff helps you to feel better, lighter, and more pure. You deserve that! and of course the less stuff you have the more you can be in control of what you do have! Purging is also essential for clutter control.

Purging is often misunderstood simply as a way to "get rid" of things but in the purging process, deciding what to keep is equally important as deciding what to get rid of.

Purging is also about simplifying your life. You do not need stuff around you just because it exists!

You need to direct your efforts towards clutter control if:

• you are surrounded by stuff that does not have a home


• you have lots of stuff that has not been used or touched in the last year


• you regularly cannot find things that you know you "put somewhere"


• you have important items that are not stored safely or securely


• you are surrounded by stuff but feel that your life lacks meaning

Getting Rid of Clutter