Hoarding things is very easy and very harmful! In this article, we will answer a question. How to avoid hoarding things at home?
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Is it possible to accumulate objects?
👉 We don't realize it. But every day, we bring a lot of objects into our home! For example:
- Package
- Letters
- Receipts or invoices
- Advertising papers
- Supermarket bags
- Cardboard boxes
All these objects, which are mostly useless, when they enter our home, we tend to leave them inside our home.
👉 That is, when new objects enter our home and no objects leave our home, we automatically accumulate objects.
Why is hoarding negative?
I have explained this in many articles on this blog. In reality, every new object brought inside our home automatically means:
- No more cleaning to do
- Loss of available space
👉 Therefore, avoiding accumulating objects means taking care of your home and avoiding certain household chores!
👉Also, we must not forget that the more objects we accumulate:
- The higher the difficulty of tidying up
- The more time we increase in order to tidy up
Moreover, Marie Kondo, a tidying specialist, revealed in her book “The magic of tidying up1” that she never tidies her home.
In fact, if she maintains a minimalist and orderly interior without tidying up, it is thanks to a simple trick: never add new items.
Simple, no new items, no tidying up to do.
How to avoid accumulating objects in our home?
It's very simple!
In summary, you go through 3 stages:
- Throw away everything that is useless
- Limit items to an essential number (e.g., what do you think is the essential number of T-shirts in the closet?)
The third step is to continue with a minimalist and essentialist home 🧐 And that's when this article gets interesting 😉
▶️ Therefore, when we enter our home, we must proceed as follows:
| New useless object -> Delete immediately |
| New useful object -> Deleting another object |
- New useless object -> Delete immediately
In fact, even before entering our home. We should check the new items we are bringing in 🤔
Note that it is very easy to bring new unnecessary items (e.g. advertising papers, old handkerchiefs).
👉 In this case, do not hesitate to immediately throw away the useless object.. If it's possible to throw these items away before you get home. That's even better 👍
Otherwise, these useless objects will end up in a corner of the house. No doubt these objects will take up unnecessary space and will accumulate dust.
- New useful object -> Deletion of another object
Fortunately, not all the items we bring into our homes are useless.
👉In this case, if we want to continue with a minimalist, tidy and essentialist home. In reality, we just have to think like this ”If one object comes into my home, another object must go out!”
I can give an example. In my closet, every new item of clothing I add automatically means I'm throwing away an old item of clothing!
Why? I have organized and limited my wardrobe by number of essential clothes. In fact, none of my clothes are too many. 😉
If a new piece of clothing enters my wardrobe, it automatically means that I will end up with an extra, non-essential piece of clothing in my wardrobe 😬
Therefore, in order to avoid accumulating non-essential clothes, it is very simple. If one garment goes in, another must come out!
What do you do if you throw something away?
👉 If I throw away a piece of clothing or an object from my home, in this case, I prefer to let some time pass in order to understand if the garment or object thrown away was essential!
Indeed, I understood that sometimes we believe that an object is essential, but this is not always the case.
In this case, after a few days, if I realize that I have lost an essential object, I buy a new similar object. If not, I do not buy and I live with one less object 😉
👉 In conclusion, every non-essential object that leaves my home corresponds to a small minimalist victory🫡
Conclusion
How to avoid the accumulation of objects at home? In reality, there are 5 steps:
- Remove all non-essential items
- Limit the essential number of each category of objects
- Immediately throw away new unnecessary items
- If a new essential object comes in, an old non-essential object goes out.
- If an item is leaving the home, allow a few days to pass to understand whether it is necessary to purchase an essential item.
What do you think about this article? How to avoid the accumulation of objects at home?
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