Is getting rid of clutter difficult for you? Are you desperate to clean up your cluttered home?
Declutter quickly and without emotion and you can get rid of clutter easier and faster.
Clearing clutter from your cluttered home is difficult if you are held back by fear of throwing out
something you might need or want.
Perhaps you like to keep items that are perfectly good (or maybe not so good) because you
cannot live with the guilt of throwing them away?
These tactics for clearing clutter might be just the solution you are looking for.
The suggestions are not meant to be a systematic way of clutter control.
These are extreme tactics you can use if you recognize that you are held back by confusion or emotion and then do nothing rather than try to analyze what is really going on.
If you have a cluttered home you may just need some extreme declutter tactics!
You might find these extreme declutter tactics useful if you think you are time challenged and do not have time to engage is a systematic purge in order to bring about more order to your environment.
Each extreme declutter tactic takes just a few minutes.
The purpose for using an extreme tactic for getting rid of clutter is to lighten your load,
so you can feel what it is like to be unburdened and also examine what it feels like to actually
discard items.
If your cluttered home needs a purge but you constantly procrastinate because you are afraid throwing something out that you might need or want later;
these declutter tactics can help you to realize that you can live without most of what you have
cluttering up your physical space without any serious consequences at all.
The Goal
The goal of these extreme tactics for getting rid of clutter is to see how it feels to reduce the
amount of stuff in your life. If you are a person who has difficulty getting rid of clutter
it is highly likely that using these techniques will stimulate an emotional response.
It is the examination of that emotional response that will help you understand your clutter habit and the
emotions that perpetuate it.
The Rules
You are not allowed to examine any item or ponder its future use or purpose.
Use only one extreme declutter tactic per week.
The Extreme Declutter Tactics
Tactic #1 - Pick up a pile of magazines and put them in the recycle bin -
do not go through them or select any magazines at all just pick up whatever you can handle and throw!
Tactic #2 - Get one garbage bag and quickly go from room to room in your house and pick up
anything that is homeless and place it in the garbage bag. Unless you live in a mansion this should not
take you any longer than 10 minutes. Tie up the bag and put it at the curb for garbage pickup.
Tactic #3 - Pick a pile of paper clutter and take the bottom half of it put it in a paper bag.
Label with the date and seal it with tape or staples. Put the bag right back in the place where the
papers were. In one month if you have not opened this bag simply get rid of it (make sure you take it to
the shredders if it has identifying information on it.)
As you proceed with getting rid of clutter using these techniques take notice of your emotions.
It is likely that you will be feeling one of two emotions and they are fear and/or guilt.
If you are feeling fear try to answer these questions :
Is there a legitimate reason for my fear?
Am I in danger?
Have I placed someone else in danger by my actions?
Have I made my life better or worse with my declutter tactic?
If you are feeling guilt try to answer these questions:
Has something bad happened?
Did I do anything to cause it to happen?
Did my actions cause harm to another person?
In the days following the clutter eviction try to become more emotionally aware of how are you
feeling not having those magazines, or papers, or other stuff around to clutter your life.
do you feel better or worse?
do you miss your stuff?
does it call to you from the trash bag?
do you have any regrets?
Just a word of warning these are extreme declutter tactics.
It is not the reduction but rather the emotional response to the reduction that is the most
important part of getting rid of clutter with these three techniques
Answers to your What if's...
You discarded a bill that needed to be paid?
I can absolutely guarantee that another will be sent asking for payment. Make sure you pay it when it arrives.
Someone else's stuff got sent to the garbage as it was not in it's proper place?
If they do not want to care for it and make sure it is returned to its proper place then they do not really value it.
You discarded a magazine that had a recipe you wanted to try?
Go to the internet and you can find twenty versions of that same recipe there.
But what if?
It is quite possible that you will throw something out that was needed.
But that is the whole point! The idea is to develop some perspective around the importance of the
stuff you have discarded. It is already not serving any purpose and only blocking your growth and
potential in your living space.
How important can it be? If the stuff was important it would be adding value to your life or if it
was an important piece of business you would have taken care of it already.
If you really loved it you would be looking after it properly instead of letting it just
clutter up your space.
You have a cluttered home because you are making excuses for keeping stuff. Much of the time
these reasons are in order to protect yourself from the possibility that getting rid of
clutter will make you feel
guilty by accidently doing something wrong and throwing out something that you might regret.
Extreme declutter tactics such as the three techniques profiled here can help you to develop
some perspective on the real consequences of clearing clutter.
I can also give you another guarantee. Those consequences are never as bad as what you have imagined in your mind.
Stumble It!
