The longer a person lives in one place, the more he accumulates unnecessary things: cute souvenirs, boxes of equipment, old things that need to be thrown away for a long time, and other garbage that "may come in handy." The famous blogger Leo Babauta, who promotes minimalism as a lifestyle, also suffered from this bad habit - saving up mountains of rubbish at home, but he managed to get rid of it. Read his advice on how to "clean up" your home and why each person needs to do it.
One of my favorite habits, which I have acquired since I changed my life nine years ago, is maintaining order in the house without accumulating junk. Now I understand that I have always hated clutter, but I did not allow myself to think about it, because such thoughts were unpleasant.
The thought of having to clean up so many things just scared me, and I always found something to do or suddenly felt tired - in general, I procrastinated.
But then I decided to get rid of the rubbish anyway; Gradually, one pile of things at a time, I started cleaning the house and it worked out. It was just a discovery, mostly because I had no idea that I could do it until I did. What is even more amazing and beautiful - along with the rubbish, irritation and devastation left my life.
That is, putting things in order in the house meant not just cleanliness, but also a peaceful life in the spirit of minimalism. Now I spend less time cleaning, keeping order and even finding the things I need. I spend less money on things and store less things. I hardly get attached to things.
Here is a small guide for anyone who has long wanted to get rid of their trash at home. Of course, this process will not be instant, and you cannot even call it fast - it can take months before your house gets rid of the trash. But if you do it right, the process itself will be fun and fun, and ultimately it will lead you to inner freedom and empowerment.
1. Start small
The mountains of rubbish can be overwhelming, and so we put it off until it never comes. The best thing I can think of to do is to concentrate on one small point in the house and start there.
A good example is a kitchen unit, table or shelf. Clear everything at the intended point, leave only what is really needed. Put the items back neatly and sort the rest. Something will have to be thrown away, something - given or sold. Sorting will only take you 10 minutes, and you can return items that are not useful to you later.
2. Disassemble in parts
So, you have freed a small part of the house from trash. Great, you will feel proud of yourself and enjoy the work done. But what about the rest of the house? It's still full of junk. Give this activity 10 minutes a day, or more if enthusiasm awakens.
If you have free time on weekends, you can do a large chunk of work and clean up a lot more than on weekdays. If you feel like it, you can spend your entire weekend picking up the trash.
3. Use a simple method
Stack all the items from one part of the house, such as all the drawers on the desk, into one pile. Take one thing out of this heap and ask yourself, “Do I love her? Do I use it? " If not, then feel free to throw it away. The main thing is not to postpone the decision until later.
If the answer is yes, find a specific place for her, her “home”. If you love something or really need it, it deserves to get its place, to which you will return it every time you use it.
As soon as you decide on one thing, take out the next one and repeat all over again. If you work quickly and make decisions quickly, you can sort a bunch of things in 10 minutes (unless the heap is huge, of course).
4. Immediately put in the trunk
Items that are no longer needed should leave your home as soon as possible. To do this, put them in a bag and in the trunk of your car. On occasion, you throw them away or give to someone. If you don't have a car, put bags of unwanted items next to the door so you don't forget to throw them away.
5. Talk to family members (roommates)
If you live with other people, they will be surprised when you start getting rid of the junk. You should talk to them before starting. Explain why you are doing this, and have them also participate in making decisions about things.
There is no need to pressure or persuade, just try to talk, tell, maybe show this article. If they disagree, that's okay. Take away your personal stuff, only your belongings, and show them the result. Perhaps, when they see all the benefits, they will agree to change.
6. Track your resistance
In the process of getting rid of the trash, you will most likely have internal resistance. Even if you are not using the item, when the time comes to get rid of it, there may be a strong reluctance to do so.
For example, it could be a photograph of a loved one, a gift from a family member, memorabilia from a wedding or travel, or something else. It's amazing how we associate objects with memories and love for other people.
In fact, there is no love in these useless things - it is within you. So getting rid of trash, leaving only feelings inside is a useful practice.
7. Enjoy the process
If you start to see getting rid of the trash as just another boring homework, there will be no progress. You are more likely to make excuses for yourself to get rid of this unnecessary routine.
Instead, see getting rid of the trash as a liberating process, a step towards inner completeness and clarity. Smile while sorting and throwing out unnecessary things, focus on your breathing, on your body, on your movements, on your feelings about the things that you are taking apart. This is a good practice, and I recommend that everyone do it.
These steps won't help you get rid of the junk in one weekend. But you can enjoy the process itself until you completely get rid of the trash and your home is transformed. You will love these changes as much as I love them.
Fighting this is useless. The desire to drag a lot of valuable things into your burrow, to keep them longer, is characteristic of all living things, even gophers. All that remains is to relax and have fun. And also, you can optimize stocks, their position in space and your attitude to them.
What is trash is a truly philosophical question. This is the whole point: if you understand that there is rubbish, consider that you got rid of it.
Trying to define trash on a subject-matter basis is a hopeless business. For some, egg shells are garbage, for others, valuable fertilizer for their favorite cabbage; to another a bunch of old screws and bolts - rubbish, and to another a future receiver on transistors. There are things that are rarely used, there are those that will never be useful, they lie and lie. Sometimes they still warm the soul, sometimes they don't. Junk is just something that is never used, it lies with a dead weight and does not warm the soul, but only causes the desire to remove it away and not see.
Trash are not born, they become trash
The process of turning a normal thing into trash is complex and mysterious, the reasons and features of it lie in our soul. Here's a good thing, it's a pity to throw it away, maybe it will still come in handy. And a hopelessly out of fashion, but very high-quality coat or a bunch of children's romper shoes are sent to the mezzanine waiting for grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In a couple of years, even the ghostly hopes that the grandchildren will wear it will melt away, but the thing is good, it's a pity to throw it away, well, suddenly it will come in handy.
But this thing will definitely come in handy! And another board is dragged into the house, which should become a handmade super dresser, or a piece of fabric is bought from which one day, when I learn to sew, I will sew a dress. And it doesn't matter that I will never learn to sew anyway ...
But this wildly cute little thing, of course, is not at all useful. But she is so cute that there is simply no way to throw her away. And we keep, are kept in our house, empty perfume bottles, coffee cans, candy boxes and old wall calendars with wrinkled but wildly cute pictures.
Sometimes very good, useful and necessary things become trash. Only now they are useful and necessary not for us at all, but for someone else, and we, crushed by stereotypes in the spirit of “every decent family should have a crystal vase”, litter our house with cheese cutters, turbo mops, coffee sets and smart books that we don't want to read even on pain of death. All this is neatly folded into cabinets and is never used in life, because cheese, perhaps, is more pleasant to nibble from a large piece, and to drink coffee from large mugs.
Various (de) useful little things that are rarely used, but are difficult to store, litter the space very well. It is much easier to buy new candles for the cake at X hour than to look for where you put the old ones.
Almost hopelessly clutters up the apartment with various bulky rubbish. For example, an old, sturdy and dull wardrobe or chest of drawers. He will outlive both you and your grandchildren, but your grandmother could no longer look at him without tears.
Trash - these are possibly very good, but potentially unnecessary or hopelessly outdated things. All this accumulates, takes up closets, mezzanines and closets, collects dust, fills living space, requires maintenance and eats up energy. We must get rid of all this, and the sooner the better.
Trash fighting is reduced, in essence, to just two actions. First, you need to understand that it is he who is in front of you. Second - you need to find the strength to throw him out of the house. And this should be done easily, playfully, so that not only your home, but also your inner world is cleared of trash.
14 ways to get rid of junk:
- Let's play moving: During cleaning, periodically ask yourself the question: "If I were now moving to a new apartment, would I take this thing with me?" If a thing is not needed in a new apartment, then why store it in this one?
- Matroskin's first lesson: If you want to get rid of junk and enjoy it, sell something you don't need. Imagine that you have no money at all and you are forced to sell things. What would you sell first? So sell it, and with the proceeds you can buy something you really need.
- Matroskin's second lesson: To sell something unnecessary, you first have to buy something unnecessary. But we will not do this. Before buying a large item, let's imagine what will happen to it in 5 years. Can't imagine anything good or reasonable, you don't need this thing.
- Boogie Woogie Throw Out 27: Get up now and walk around the apartment with a garbage bag in hand. You have to find 27 things you don't need and throw them away immediately. The trash lies right in front of you, you just need to look at it in a new way. Look out for magazines, newspapers, expired drugs, old batteries, broken pens and markers, empty cassette boxes, empty vials, old sponges and rags, torn tights and socks.
- Throwing out on flylаdy: Look at the thing and ask yourself the following questions:
- Do I love this thing?
- Have I used it over the past year?
- Is this really rubbish?
- Do I have the exact same thing, only better?
- Do I really need two such things?
- Do I love this thing because it makes me feel memories and feelings?
- Or does she make me feel guilty and upset when I see her?
- Clear the room of anything that doesn't make you smile.
- Man is a friend of a dog: Get a puppy... A kitten, in principle, will do too. All unnecessary will be quickly gnawed and torn to shreds. Everything that you thought you needed, but did not hide in time - too. And now you, with a light conscience, can throw it all away.
- Organize a gadyushnik: Let's be realistic - it's impossible to achieve an ideal, completely get rid of the trash it is impossible. Therefore, we will give our home junk a cozy place, for example, a small bedside table. And we will store all the trash in this wonderful nightstand, and only in it. Sooner or later the bedside table will be full, there will be nowhere to put a new portion of junk, and we will have to solve the problem of what is more junk from our home junk, what to put in the bedside table, and what to throw out. An authorized gadyushnik is an extremely convenient thing: the amount of trash in an apartment is limited, everything is in one place, and at the same time, you don't have to step on your favorite calluses and completely get rid of old jars and cones that have been put off for a rainy day. But remember that there can be only one viper in the house.
- Summer season: Summer cottage is wonderful and useful. It helps easily and without remorse to rid the house of an annoying good-quality chest of drawers, out-of-fashion curtains with teapots and old jeans, but here it is important not to go to extremes and not deliberately litter the dacha itself.
- In the best traditions: It seems that in Italy it is customary to throw out trash and old things from the house in the new year. Isn't it a wonderful tradition? A holiday of renewal, a holiday of getting rid of junk. Be sure to celebrate it at least 2 times a year.
- Waste basket: With its help it is very convenient to get rid of various little things, However, if the basket is large, then it can help in the fight against larger trash. Everything that you do not know where to put; everything that you do not know what to attach to; everything that you think that it will be useful to you, but it is not yet clear how, you put in this basket. Let it lie down. Once a week, month, quarter, all the contents of the basket are ruthlessly thrown away. The really necessary things by that time will have already been extracted from it, and everything else - trash.
- Formatting the hard drive: This method is good for dealing with papers, documents, disks, photographs. Let's say the filing cabinet is not a filing cabinet, but a hard drive that you have to format tomorrow. Anything valuable must be saved today. Everything else will be destroyed. Save what you have the strength and desire for. These are really valuable things. And the rest is not a pity to throw away.
- Worse than a Tatar: This method is similar to the previous one, but requires a truly samurai endurance from the performer. First, you hide everything valuable, and then you invite guests and offer to take away everything that they like from the rest. As an additional bonus, you get the opportunity not to take the trash out of the apartment - the guests will take it out themselves.
- Gifts that are not needed: I would like to say separately about the heap of unnecessary gifts that fills our house several times a year. A napkin from Marya Petrovna from personnel, a vase from Elena Mikhailovna from the accounting department, an apron on duty from her mother-in-law, 24 postcards to “beloved class teacher from 7 b” ... It's good if the gifts have receipts and they can be returned to the store. If there are no receipts, unnecessary gifts can be donated. A napkin to my beloved mother-in-law, a vase to Marya Petrovna. It will be more difficult with postcards, but you can also get rid of them - write thank you words on the postcard to each student and return them back. The main thing is to crush in oneself the complexes “inconvenient and dishonorable”, it is inconvenient to store all this, and dishonestly - to throw it into the trash.
- If you cannot change the world, then change your attitude towards it: If you persistently cannot throw away the trash, you can change your attitude towards it. For example, you can declare yourself a collector, and then your school folder with crumpled postcards will become not junk, but a collection. Can't you throw out the bronze chandelier that your beloved mother-in-law decided to keep in your apartment? Call it a family heirloom and tell guests the stories and legends associated with this antique.
Getting rid of trash, it is important not to go to two extremes: on the one hand, not to turn into Plyushkin and still rid your house of various junk, on the other, you must remember that, in fact, some old and unnecessary things we need.
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I am striving for liberation. I get rid of everything superfluous in my life.
Today you would call me the buzzword "minimalist". Although only a few years ago, everything was different. My house was bursting at the seams from an endless number of new clothes, cosmetics and perfumes, some kind of interior stuff.
But life has taught me a lot. My parents' house burned down, I got divorced myself and spent a lot of time on the move, rented an apartment and provided for myself, refusing clothes and travel. The rented apartment did not have a closet and a vacuum cleaner, and I learned how to regularly wash the floor, that is, do what I don’t like since my early childhood, and I put my clothes in boxes on the floor. And nothing - it was even cozy.
1. Regularly get rid of unnecessary and / or old things
Moving from apartment to apartment, I appreciated that the less unnecessary things I have, the easier it is to live. The main thing is that what travels with me is right at this stage and right for my lifestyle.
Life is unpredictable. And if you give yourself completely and emotionally invest in things, it can be very difficult if you suddenly have to part with them.
A dozen sentimental bears from the past, clothes that no longer fit in size or just do not like, but seem to be not old yet - sorry to throw them out - all this takes up a lot of space and draws energy. And here we are not talking about esotericism - we have to spend energy on ironing, vacuuming, dry cleaning and doing many more manipulations with things that are no longer suitable for us. Elementary, excess in the wardrobe complicates the choice of clothes. While you dig through the entire closet, you can forget about a new blouse under a pile of old dresses.
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I revise my entire wardrobe once a season. I get rid of what I don’t like, doesn’t fit well, that I have never put on and I generally cannot imagine the situation when I’ll wear it. I make an exception only for very expensive and high-quality things, jewelry. Who knows, maybe in ten years they will become a valuable rarity? Or will they finally fit me again?
With everything else, I do this: I wash cheap clothes or those that are not in very good condition, put them in order and take them to a charity store, or, in the end, leave them next to a dump in the city center or in a residential area. Usually homeless people take her away.
The one that is better - I sell. I use Avito a lot. Just today I sold a wool scarf with a Guess hat. The hat was prickly for me, and I didn't like it at all, so it lay for two seasons almost untouched. And it happens that we team up with our friends and arrange parties with fitting and exchange of such clothes. A great occasion to meet and have a great time. Cocktails included!
If there is something left that I do not dare to sell or give away, I postpone it for half a year and see if my attitude to this thing has changed.
Why did I decide to clean my wardrobe every three months? Because it’s insanely tedious to sell and give everything away when the cabinet has not been thoroughly reviewed for a couple of years. Despite the fact that for the past two years I have periodically got rid of everything, now I have been putting my wardrobe in order for the second week.
Unnecessary / obsolete household appliances and gadgets
Oh, these gifts-surprises and all that we receive "on duty" or from those who do not know us well. Then there are always extra coffee grinders, multicooker, smart alarm clocks and other things that seem to be necessary, but not for us. They lie and wait in the wings, or rather the moment when they are already morally obsolete and will be sent, at best, to the country.
If the item is in packaging and has not yet been used, I sell it or put it aside as a gift to someone who really needs it. Among my friends-acquaintances there are both lovers of fresh coffee and those who need a keychain flashlight for keys.
Sometimes it also happens that you choose some super fashionable gadget for yourself, walk around with it for a month and you realize that, that's it, you've played enough. So it was with me, for example, with the smart "bracelet" Jawbone Up24. I myself chose it as a birthday present and registered it to my friends in the wish list. I thought he would help me wake up along with my biorhythms and eat only the right food. As a result, after a month I got tired of it, and I adjusted my biorhythms myself.
I didn't put it in a box with unnecessary items and decided to sell it. By the way, this was the beginning of my acquaintance with Avito. I dropped the price 4 times, and the buyer was immediately found. Yes, it's a pity to give a good thing at such a price, but for myself I decided that I'd rather go to a restaurant with this money twice than fill the box with an unnecessary contraption.
And so in everything. Now I boldly sell extra juicers and food processors left over from family life, I do not wait for the family to re-find and squeeze juice to my children and my husband. Perhaps my future husband lives in another country and every day his personal chef squeezes juice for him!
2. Choose things according to their appropriateness.
Before, I often bought myself clothes and perfume for my mood. Hence the extra clothes and the thrown away money. But life, as they say, taught me with a ruble. Renting an apartment is not a cheap pleasure. And I slowly began to save. And most importantly, she returned the very joy that arises when you look for some thing for a long time and find it.
I'll tell you about spirits as an example. I used to have about ten different ones, and I used them depending on my mood. Therefore, they did not end for a long time and insanely annoyed me for several years. It's a pity to throw it away, but I don't want to use it.
Things are different now. I have one daytime perfume, one evening perfume and one for seduction. Something like this. And now I choose perfume for several months. I go shopping, sniffing - mine or not. And I take only those that made me remember their smell.
And how nice it is to buy a thing for a reason, but to make a mini-holiday out of it! For example, I decide to dedicate Saturday exclusively to myself. In the morning I wake up, have a delicious breakfast, go shopping, buy a dress, then dine in a new place, and at the end of the day - a movie or spa. This is a whole ritual that gives much more pleasure than a blouse or ink bought in a hurry and in a fit of melancholy.
If you are just sad and want to cheer yourself up, it is better to go for a massage or to the theater. Spending money deliriously is not a good story.
This is about clothes, but what about large purchases? Household appliances, cars, etc.? Again, the principle of expediency. Why buy on TV in every room if I only watch it in the living room, and even then on holidays? Or what's the point in a food processor if there's nowhere to put it. It will be stored in the closet or under the bed, and, accordingly, almost never used.
3. Keeping heirlooms and your own trophies is necessary, but not all.
Over the years, a lot of memorable little things usually accumulate in one place, which over time can swallow the entire apartment if they are not regularly cleaned. For myself, I choose only what I am ready to spend my space on, and I attach everything else as intended. I keep old photos on removable hard drives, give away the disks, leaving only the most memorable ones.
It is always very difficult to part with the belongings of loved ones after their death. But you can't take everything with you and carry around for the rest of your life. I would really not want to get rid of my grandfather's military uniform with orders and his records or some of my grandmother's jewelry and photographs. But, for example, I would give some of the books to those who really need them: friends, in small cafes, in orphanages. Memories from this will not become less, but I will have more space.
Or another example, I have a memory box where I used to put old tickets for concerts, love letters and other nice little things. Although it takes up a lot of space, until now I did not dare to throw it out and steadfastly carried it around with me at all moves. But now I am already mentally ripe to part with her, if life requires it. After all, all the memories are in our head!
4. Plan your living space consciously.
Everything in the living space should be convenient and close at hand. For example, I love to cook and arrange everything in the right order for me. It is important for me that everything is close by, and not in the closet or closet. When I had a large kitchen, I could afford to put all kitchen appliances on various tables and kitchen islands and use them regularly. As soon as I put something in the drawer, I forgot about it. So, the blender could be idle for months. Moving into a rented apartment with a small kitchen, I took only the most basic - a couple of pans, pots and other small utensils. I already had no time for steamers and food processors.
The same applies to extra shelves, boxes and little things. When planning a kitchen and an apartment (strange, but I have done this repeatedly in my life), I try to minimize unnecessary rooms and objects, which are then not clear how and with what frequency will be used. Anything that does not carry real functionality only interferes and clutters up your apartment.
I arrange my cosmetics so that in the morning I have only my permanent set at hand, and not a whole cosmetic bag. Eyeshadows and lipsticks, tonal creams, which I use less often, are kept separately. This saves me a lot of time, because I don't need to look for anything.
In addition, I have several drawers and compartments that store the contents of the most frequently used outdoor items. For example, in autumn there is an umbrella, keys, documents, gloves, a couple of bags, a shoe sponge or credit cards. And in the summer, - sunglasses, adhesive plasters, napkins.
Such i place functional sets in those zones where I find the fastest access to them at the right time. Again, I regularly get rid of everything that I don't need and don't work. I mean, it doesn't work for me and for my current life situation.
5. Don't buy extra food if you don't have time to cook it.
My heart bleeds every time I see that my parents are making unnecessary preparations of jam, sauces, mushrooms and cucumbers! Year after year, the situation does not change, and only half of everything that was done so diligently and with heart is eaten.
I always try to use the principle of expediency. For example, I'm a fan of fresh berries - so at the end of the summer I can devote time to picking or buying and processing them for storage in the freezer. But I sincerely don’t understand those who do it “by inertia” - you don’t have to be a “phony” who was ruined by greed. So life only gets more complicated, because we lose precious minutes that could be spent on something really important.
I myself am not a fan of jams and canned vegetables and fruits, so I do not strive to make such preparations. Being married, I made several jars - just enough to last for the winter. I don't like it when food is thrown away The same goes for shopping. I prefer going for perishable foods like milk, meat or fish several times a week, rather than buying them for a few weeks and keeping them in the freezer.
Again, all products that have undergone thermal processing, whether cold or warm, no longer carry as much benefit as fresh ones. For myself, I decided to buy seasonal vegetables and use a seed germinator.
There is always a solution, if you really want to find it.
6. Periodically assess whether all those expensive things that we use are really needed.
Now we will talk about apartments, cars, dachas, yachts ... A car is good, but how much time and money it takes in maintenance. Quite comparable in cost to daily taxi rides. And then there are traffic jams, the time for the engine to warm up (especially in winter), parking problems, and more. Yes, more the car makes us walk less. If so, a hundred less walking. And in order to be in shape, you then need to go to the gym, or you could just walk about five to ten kilometers every day. And this is quite real.
I'll tell you by my own example. As soon as I got a car, I started driving it almost constantly. With the change of work and housing last year, I just did not get out of it. And what is the result? Got a couple extra pounds, despite the sport. And then I decided to reconsider my attitude to the car, to assess whether I really need it every day. Having abandoned the usual pattern that a car is convenience and comfort, I rediscovered walks, minibuses, metro and even electric trains. And I was satisfied. Now I often do this: in the morning I drive to work by car, and in the evening I leave home without it. I go out a couple of metro stations earlier from home to walk and do some shopping. So, I walk more and manage to do my business in parallel.
Apartments, villas and other real estate. I am sincerely convinced that these things should work for the owner. Either they live there regularly, or they are obliged to bring money. My choice is simple. I don’t want to waste time maintaining homes that I’m not going to live in, buying furniture, cleaning, insurance, and more. After all, forces and energy flow into this hole, why give it to something that you practically do not use. Guided by the principle of expediency, if possible, I will rent something, sell something, and where my heart is, I will live.about published
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Many people simply physically cannot part with trash dear to their hearts. We do not condemn attachment to pearls reminiscent of a grandmother, but much more often cabinets are bursting with truly monstrous things. There is a blouse that was on you on the day of your first kiss, and a rabbit fur coat mortally wounded by a moth (well, how to throw out the fur!), And stripper shoes, presented by witty friends and since then awaiting your moral downfall.
If it's a pity to throw out unnecessary things
Psychologists, of course, have an explanation why people have such a pure love for garbage. Listening to specialists - this is how things become for us powerful symbols of the past years, reminding us who we are, where we are from and how we achieved everything we have. All these tapes with Stashevsky, zero-size jeans, a double-glued cup with kittens are part of our personal history, which is difficult to send to the trash heap.
There is another reason: if property emphasizes your status and success (for example, things from designer, albeit outdated, collections), then in today's shaky economic climate it gives a certain illusion of security. And to throw out such an expensive amulet, even if it objectively asks for the trash, is doubly difficult.
Be that as it may, from time to time it is necessary to clear the living space - because hoarding is a heavy burden not only on the shelves, but also on your physical and emotional state. “An overabundance of things doesn't just litter an apartment, it also steals energy,” says Tim Kasser, Ph.D., professor and author of The High Cost of Materialism. - Studies have shown that the more people are focused on property, the lower the level of their personal well-being, the less often they are satisfied with their lives and the more often they are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol and pills for headaches. " You don't need it, right? Then get rid of unnecessary things.
Throw out the unnecessary: \u200b\u200bstep 1
Understand the problem
The mountain does not appear in the house overnight. Usually it accumulates for years, like dust under a refrigerator, and in the same way at first does not draw attention to itself. But by some indications, you can understand that things are planning to take over your legal square meters.
- You always plan to "sort it out later" with items that need repair, dry cleaning, fit. Therefore, your closets are full of shoes without heels and shirts without buttons - and, of course, there is nothing to wear. The rule will help to resolve this chaos: never take out of sight a thing that needs repair or washing, and do not hesitate to give your friends a book that you cannot finish reading for more than a year.
- You are constantly late, and it's not about traffic jams - you just have too many clothes and accessories. When there are a lot of options, you spend too much time thinking about the image, which, firstly, knocks you off the schedule, and secondly, tires you.
- You have three bottles of your favorite nail polish - and you just bought another. We hope you have no real memory problems, which means that you have a syndrome of emotional purchases (I saw an old acquaintance in the window - how can I get past?) Or an irrational fear that your favorite product might disappear from the shelves, so you need to have a stock.
Throw out the unnecessary: \u200b\u200bstep 2
Change your approach
There are three ways to take control of your own greed / shopaholism / addiction.
- Focus on emotions. Spending money on entertainment - such as a vacation on the islands or dinner at a restaurant - rather than on material goods makes people happier in the long run., according to a study by psychologists from the University of San Francisco. And to make it easier for you to part with cash without getting anything real in return, try to think of it as an investment in a bank of happiness. Everything that brings pleasure (we are talking about lying under palm trees and sitting with friends) is valuable, because you will experience pleasant emotions over and over again, just remembering this event. And things tend to lose their attractiveness over time, and in general it is boring with them.
- Remember that less is sometimes better. Clutter at home often stems from the delusion that variety is more important than quality. Having an industrial stock of approximately the same white T-shirts, you stop appreciating each specific one and, most likely, will buy more and more new ones in the hope that some of them will seem special to you. Instead, try buying only what you really like.
- Ask for advice. Having decided on a general cleaning, invite a friend or sister to act as the arbiter of destinies. A person who is not as emotionally as you are attached to what they have acquired by back-breaking labor is able to give objective advice on what it is high time to hand over to the scrap.
What unwanted / spoiled / old things are the most difficult for you to throw away?
- Clothes, shoes, underwear ......... 27%
- Household appliances, electronics ......... 4%
- Books, CDs, magazines ......... 4%
- Memorabilia ......... 4%
- Accessories, jewelry, watches ......... 2%
- Furniture, decor items ......... 2%
- Baby things ......... 2%
- Sorry for nothing ......... 12%
- It's all a pity ......... 13%
- Other ......... 17%
- I find it difficult to answer ......... 13%
Throw out the unnecessary: \u200b\u200bstep 3
Remove all unnecessary
Even in the cells of the nuns there is rubbish that just asks for the trash, let alone your mansion. But, if you can't decide on the fly whether a thing deserves exile, read on. We will help you.
- Do you use this item often or do you have a better item with the same functions? It may be a pretty decent sweater, but if you don't remember when you last put it on, don't hesitate to give it to those in need. The same goes for a toaster that has been gathering dust idle for more than six months.
- An exception must be made for items designed for special occasions. An evening clutch bag, featherbed linen and a lobster pot are hardly essentials, but if your life involves at least a rare use of them, so be it, let them stay.
- Is this thing related to sentimental memories? As practice shows, even for ancient old women, memorable artifacts about the best moments of life can easily fit into two boxes. The wedding album and the first drawing of the heir will definitely fit there. But keeping all of the plane's boarding passes from every trip you've ever made? Think about it.
- Are you afraid of losing it? According to the law of meanness, exactly what went to the landfill yesterday will be urgently needed today. But if that's the only reason to keep keeping Strawberry's costume from the school play, it's clearly not enough.
Throw out the unnecessary: \u200b\u200bstep 4
Clear the space
Ready to start clearing the area? Wait, we have some more tips.
- Do not move things from place to place. Every item that you take in your hands must be put in its place or thrown away (recycled, donated, finally returned to the library or donated). And do not try to deceive yourself with the words: "I will think about it later." Now or never.
- One in the house, one out. When buying a new thing (say, a mixer), if you please, throw away the old one, which "can still be repaired." Well, or throw it to the craftsmen in the garages.
- Count and think. In your mind, figure out what are the quantitative indicators of your mess: in numbers (five pairs of jeans), volumes (a basket of lipstick) and time ("I have not been able to leaf through this magazine for six months already"). The more items of one category you have and the less often you use them, the more zealously you must work to reduce their number.
1. Get rid of everything that pulls you back into the past.
2. Things that are not worn or used in everyday life die. Therefore, they carry information about death.
3. If your home is a mess when you leave it, you tend to carry with you to the outside world the idea that your feelings or your life are in the same mess. All of this is in your subconscious, and although it seems to you that you are behaving completely regardless of your home situation, in your appearance, body language or demeanor, there will certainly be some aspect that betrays the actual state of things. Other people will receive these “messages; (also mostly unconsciously) and respond accordingly to your behavior, therefore harmony in the house leads to a more harmonious and urgent relationship with the outside world.
4. Nothing new and valuable will come into our life until there is no free space in it.
You cannot create something new without completely getting rid of everything old.
5. The criterion in the selection of unnecessary one. If a thing has not come in handy within a year or two, it will never be needed again.
6. There is tremendous healing power in freeing your home from unnecessary things. By clearing out on the external level, we make possible internal changes, we release a huge amount of energy for this.
7. The presence of blockages keeps you in the past. When all the space in your home is cluttered, you simply don't have room for something new to appear in your life. Clearing debris will allow you to move forward. You must free yourself from the past to create a better tomorrow.
8. Old, unnecessary things, junk are the real energy eaters. If you do not dare to part with them, they, gradually accumulating, begin to simply eat up your own energy, your life forces. Such buns, who cherish every rusty nail, every old button, every piece of rope, look lifeless, apathetic, unable to enjoy life. This is not surprising: they value their treasures so much that they devote all their strength, all their energy to them.
9. Before you hang a new shirt in the closet, discard the oldest shirt.
10. Get rid of everything old and worn out, with spots, holes
11. Black set of one fabric - trousers, long and short skirts, jacket.
12. Collecting unnecessary things just in case, we assume that this case will come, and we will have to go, for example, in frayed pants. We set ourselves up for failure and trouble. Thus, we program ourselves and loved ones for such a life when you will not be able to buy new things, and you will be forced to wear old, unfashionable ones, having previously repaired them.
13. Leaving unnecessary things in the house, you thereby program yourself for poverty. Holding on to old things is a sure sign of the psychology of poverty.
14. If within 1-1.5 years the thing that you were looking for and with difficulty got it, remained unnecessary, say goodbye to it.
15. The less you leave things, the sooner your wardrobe will be replenished with new ones.
16. By clinging to things that no longer serve you, you cling to principles and ideas that no longer serve you.
17. In order for a new thing to come into the house, it is necessary to free space for it. As soon as you realize this, clean up the house and get rid of unnecessary things to buy, there is both money and time.
18. Do not leave clothes hung on the backs of chairs.
20. The cost of a bouquet of flowers and a pair of tights is about the same, so why do we keep pantyhose in a drawer for years? We will not keep a dried bouquet in a vase for so long!
21. Throw away those things that are shabby, worn out and nondescript in appearance
22. Throw out shoes and bags of obsolete models Nothing spoils an outfit like outdated shoes and bags
23. To rinse your wardrobe mercilessly throw away simply Everything that does not bring joy. Make room for new changes, new relationships, new loves that will replace old things.
24. Old things do not give you the opportunity to acquire new things, accumulate negative energy, which can affect your well-being and luck in general.
25. Broken electrical appliances work like vampires, taking away the positive energy of the room and amplifying the negative.
26. A burnt out light bulb will make you spend more energy earning money, can make you feel worse and give rise to self-doubt.
27. Old, obsolete things and especially broken and defective things create negative energy in your home, contribute to stagnation in life and even negatively affect your health.
28. Old things keep stunted energy.
29. First of all, the trash can should be made happy by chipped and cracked dishes and mirrors with some kind of defects.
30. Old, forgotten things represent deferred cases, unsolved problems.
31. An altered item ends up too early in a dark wardrobe.
32. Do not leave dried flowers, dust on them.
33. Any thing carries psychic energy that a person has put into it.
34. The space of the apartment is filled with information about the things that are in it. If a thing was shoved into a corner or pushed onto the mezzanine as unnecessary, what information was put into it? And if there are a lot of such things in the apartment, then the whole house is filled with negative, dead zones formed around unnecessary items. The space filled with such things becomes denser and begins to push the person out of their own apartment. A person can get sick, and very seriously. Because it loses its vitality - its energy potential, wasting it on unnecessary things.
35. Looking at the portrait hanging on the wall, we inevitably transfer part of our consciousness there. Do we always have a surplus of energy to scatter it?
36. Through the holes in the clothes, which are on the pockets, socks, tights (under the jeans in order to save money) there is a leak of energy potential. You can't hide from yourself.
37. Spots are the materialization of unresolved problems.
38. Old unnecessary things draw energy to themselves.
39. A well-worn jacket with which the image of a loser is associated. Take it to the trash heap.
40. The smell of a blouse of pre-perestroika freshness, the scent of unfulfilled hopes and disappointments. They probably noticed that the owners of apartments, chaotically filled with old furniture and other junk, are usually unhappy and unlucky in life. It is difficult to judge what is the cause in this case and what the effect is. Either because of poverty, there is no means to change the old for the new, or the energy of second hand influences the fate of the owners in a special way.
41. But after all, every old thing is, in fact, unrealized dreams and plans.
42. We make room not for new things, but for new desires, beginnings and achievements. Agree, old detectives thrown into the trash heap is a small payment for a bright future.
43. Don't leave dust on mirrors.
44. Old things must be thrown away mercilessly.
45. Things tend to absorb and store the energy of the person who uses them.Mostly negative. When there is too much energy, the thing begins to give it away. This is especially true of upholstered furniture that is used for sleeping. The maximum lifespan of a bed or sofa is 10 years.
46. \u200b\u200bAs soon as you want to make some changes in this life, get rid of unnecessary worries, troubles in the family and stagnation at work, as well as when your health worsens, immediately begin to free your home from negative emotions. The same can be done when everything in the house is just wonderful and there is not the slightest reason for any worries. Just to reinforce your positive aura and maintain appropriate harmony in your family and at work.
47. Anything that makes you feel physically uncomfortable when wearing must be ruthlessly banished.
48. Criteria for your well-being in this clothing, mirror, previously heard reviews.
49. By clearing the space, we signal our willingness to change and accept abundance and happiness in our lives.
50. If you want positive changes in your life, then make room for them!
51. A thing that has not been touched by a person's hand, which is not remembered, gradually becomes a carrier of necrotic, dead information. Even living things that you bought with hope and pleasure, getting into such a company, can die.
52. Any thing has its own term and purpose. According to feng shui, a favorite thing gives you positive charges, absorbing negative ones. After serving its life, it, like a battery, must be disposed of. However, if you do not part with it, its negative charge can ruin the entire spiritual atmosphere in your apartment.
53. In addition, the constant contemplation of old and decrepit things (if they are not collectible and restored to shine antiques) forms in our minds the psychology of poverty. We get used to hurt ourselves and be content with patched and shabby.
54. The thing must bring renewal and desire to move forward!
55. The aura of things takes away part of the space from a person. Greed most of all punishes the owner himself: with the accumulated things, their negative energy is transferred to him.
56. Things that we stop using accumulate negative energy.
57. If you accidentally find something that you did not remember about the existence an hour ago - you can safely go to the trash bin, even if you really need it - you won't find it.
58. Don't make transformations in all rooms at once.
59. The effectiveness of clearing debris lies in the fact that while you are putting in order your external world, corresponding changes occur at the internal level. Everything around you, and especially the objects around you at home, are a reflection of your inner state. When you remove “obstacles” in the space around you that hinder the harmonious flow of energy, you thereby bring more harmony into your life, allowing new events to flow into it
60. When your home is filled with things that you love or use often, they energize you. Blockages, on the other hand, have a strong negative impact on you. If there are things in your house that cause you unpleasant associations, they pollute your space and psyche, and it does not matter if they have expired. A similar situation arises when your home is cluttered with furniture, figurines, or other objects that constantly remind you of relatives or friends with whom you have had or have strained relationships. These associations will have the same draining effect on you.
61. People who are depressed tend to keep their trash at the bottom. Remove everything unnecessary from the floor, and this will raise your energy and give courage.
62. Buy only what is perfect, not just pretty.
63. Keeping old books that you have not used for a long time does not allow you to create space in your life for new ideas and original ways of thinking. When there are too many books in the house, your thinking stops. It is especially important not to accumulate such book blocks in the zone of relationships (this symbolizes the replacement of human relationships). It is necessary to release books when their time comes. Begin the analysis of the book blockage with those books that you bought by accident and which have never been used, as well as those old books that have already begun to deteriorate in time. Ultimately, you should have a set of books that will reflect you today as you want to be tomorrow.
64. Learn the basic rule of feng shui: "Before something new comes, something old must go."
65. Let's look at our wallpaper, furniture and everything else. Pay attention to how many unnecessary things are in your house. Things constantly absorb information, it lasts long enough, and this is reflected in the psyche.
66. How important it is to have in your wardrobe your REALLY favorite thing. Favorite things give self-confidence! : favorite things - they sit on you somehow differently, and you behave in them somehow wrong, you feel super and this feeling is transmitted to everyone around you !!! I always complete my wardrobe so that I feel good in any thing. After all, the mood so easily rises when you put on your favorite skirt, it cannot be conveyed! Let this really be the beginning of such a wardrobe! \u003d)
67. WANT LOVE AND MONEY? START WITH ... CLEANING!
68. Do not load your house with unnecessary items, regularly clean and ruthlessly get rid of everything old and unusable: do not accumulate things in closets that have long gone out of fashion and out of use. You will see by distributing your old clothes, you will clear the way of life-giving energy and thereby remove "congestion" in your life - after all, feng shui teaches that everything is interconnected. By the way, according to some observations, there are often much fewer things in rich houses than in poor ones. But is it really that amazing? No, and if you want to become richer, but do not know where to start, make room for wealth in your life by removing all unnecessary things that bind you hand and foot.
69. If you want to arrange a personal life - remove from the walls the portraits of ideal beauties, with which some representatives of the fair sex love to decorate their homes ... is an. So it would be more correct to hang an image of a happy couple on the wall, and then, every time you glance at it, you will subconsciously attract partnership into your life. Just a couple of hearts, kissing doves and other love symbols will do, no matter how trite it may sound. Don't believe me? And you try, what if something really happens and life changes for the better?
70. Dust, garbage, heaps of unnecessary and forgotten things are sources of accumulation of negative energy, which carry the informational charge of the past, close us from the world and do not allow them to come to replace new things and ideas.
71. Particular attention should be paid to torn and broken things. Either they need to be repaired immediately, or thrown away immediately. And in no case should they be allowed to lie for a long time until the hands reach them. According to feng shui, this is unacceptable, because their negative energy of accumulating destruction unwittingly breaks the inner harmony of the house.
72. Love for trash is a thick hint that you are strongly attached to the past and it hinders the path to a brighter future. Having dealt with old shoes, you can change your hairstyle, job, apartment, etc. Or take a different look at what is. In any case, there will be more space in the corridor.
73. Blockages are the biggest evil you can imagine !!! Sometimes only their elimination gives amazing results !!! But it is necessary not only to disassemble and rake, but to do it purposefully. That is, raking everything, have a clear set of instructions for what you are doing this. For something new to come into our life, we need to get rid of the old. Removing all this, one must say: "I take it all apart to come into my life ..." Well, further down the list, what would you like ...
74. I think it worked for me. Indeed, new acquaintances began to appear after the purchase of dolphins. Or is it just coincidence.
75. Start with something. Allow favorable energy to enter your home. And then the CI will work with you in one go.
76. Cleaning the house can be reinforced by washing floors, windows, cleaning cabinets from debris and dust. Because like attracts like, dirty, messy houses attract vibrations that bother us. Even if your house is not kept perfectly clean, it is in order, and you know where everything is. While cleaning the house, imagine how you sweep away the sorrows and worries that have gathered in the house.
77. And "cleaned" things can be safely worn. Over time, they will become "their" loved ones. And even "lucky" talismans of their own. We willingly wear such clothes for exams and important events. One of the mechanisms of luck can be imagined: once we were lucky, and our emotional charge remained on these things. When we put on these clothes again, it will recharge us with exactly THAT energy. Naturally, our mood will improve, our tone will increase, we will be energetic, confident in ourselves. And we will again be accompanied by success - "luck". The charge of the "talisman" will increase even more.
78. If your house is not littered with rubbish, extraneous things, then you will be able to: a) keep your mind clean and tidy, b) allow new opportunities and things to enter your house.
79. And although you may be the only one who sees a cluttered basement or garage, the power of the room's energy impact does not decrease: you are the one on whom all the blows are pouring. It is you who will be touched by the qi of that room first.
80. The more unnecessary things you collect, the slower the qi movement in the apartment or office becomes. So do not be surprised that your life plans do not come true, and you have the feeling that something is interfering all the time.
81. Any red item you wear at work - a red-bound book, red pens or other stationery - will have a positive impact. Red, pink and white objects symbolize love and eroticism.
82. You want a bigger home. First you must adapt yourself to such a habitation, creating, as much as possible, a small paradise out of your house. Keep it spotless there. Make him look as cute and cuddly as your funds allow. Prepare even the simplest foods with care and set the table with the taste you can get. By ennobling your habitat, you will rise above it, and from there, in due time, you will enter the best house and habitat that have been waiting for you all this time, and which you have adapted for yourself.
83. The house can and is the point of concentration of magic, strength and spirit.
84. Home is a mirror image of ourselves.
85. Our home is a symbolic representation of ourselves and in fact, in a deeper sense, an extension of ourselves. Houses are our models. Change this pattern and the energy will change. Tidying up the drawers changes this model.
86. To get rid of the negative past, get rid of objects in your home that carry the energy of the past into the present. The Zulu burn the clothes in which they got into trouble in order to get rid of the emotional imprint left on the clothes. In some cultures, the clothes of the woman in which she gave birth are burned so that she and the child symbolically enter a new cycle of existence. If there are items in the house that remind you of something bad or were given to you by someone you dislike, get rid of them.
87. The things in your home should evoke good memories. Otherwise, negative associations will reduce the energy of your home. When you buy something for your home, remember that how you feel about buying will affect how you feel when it is in your home. If you are buying something and the seller is rude and you feel annoyed, then chances are you will never really enjoy the item. If the mood when buying is good and joyful, then associations with this item will be pleasant.
88. If possible, radically change the setting: rearrange the furniture, change the color scheme of rooms, etc. Change everything beyond recognition.
89. Make the energy of your home become a real magnet attracting love and happiness. If the energy of love has settled in your house; love will be attracted to you outside too. The energy field attracts only that which is similar in character and quality to itself. Especially focus your attention on the intent with which you are transforming the energy of your home: what you would like to see in your home.
90. Things that litter the house take away the vital energy from the residents of the house. Think: old rubbish takes away your health, your vitality, and therefore the years of your life! So what is dear to you; your own life or old stuff?
91. There is always a temptation to put aside for later things that are outdated or require repair, which have become obsolete in the process of everyday life. But it’s like putting off happiness and harmony in your home. Some people continue to use cracked, chipped, or scratched crockery year after year, even though they have fine cutlery locked in cupboards. Thus, they seem to suggest to themselves: I do not deserve harmony in my daily life;
92. Absolutely ruthlessly get rid of trash.
93. Never wear clothes with negative memories, no matter how much they cost.
94. Iron out creasing things. And don't be lazy! Better to stroke them in one go than swearing and ironing them constantly, being late for the next date, etc.).
95. Put the non-wrinkling things on the shelves. Sweaters for sweaters, T-shirts for T-shirts.
96. Immediately after ironing, hang the clothes on the hangers (hangers, trembles). Do not overload the hangers, otherwise everything will soon be wrinkled again.
97. Hanging order: Yes; skirts, then trousers, then blouses, then; jackets. Can; by style: business and classic, then; sports, sweat; for special occasions. Provide division by color.
98. I came home undressed; just see what is dirty and what; not. Do not be too lazy to assign all clean things to their usual places, but dirty ones; define in the wash.
99. In the evening, decide on the clothes for tomorrow.
100. Get rid of everything that does not fit in style, color and size.
101. DELIVER YOU God wear the things of a deceased person; his suits, dresses, coats, boots. Thus, you will connect yourself with an energy channel with the afterlife, and your energy will go through this channel.
102. Practical people always have such a warehouse of recyclable materials, justifying its existence by the fact that everything may come in handy someday. But, forgive me, someday you will need a high-quality single coffin, can you really buy it in advance?
103. Most of us have a developed hamster instinct: to hide everything we can in a burrow. But the mink is not rubber. Gradually, things clog up all the pores of the house, so that you can't turn around, they lie somewhere on the mezzanine for years, get dusty and deteriorate in cramped quarters and different closets and closets, huddle lonely under sofas and shelves. More than once, probably, you had a feeling of melancholy when you found yourself in the room of a lonely old woman. Do you know why? This is not only the old age of the owner of the apartment, but also the smell, the specific smell of a hamster's housing. Because in the closet of this old woman, mixed with new, clean things, lay the dresses that she once wore in her youth, and hats, eaten by moths, which went out of fashion half a century ago, in her sideboard there was a broken mug, neatly glued together in places of chips, plates with chipped edges and even pieces of half-eaten bread. All of them carried information about decrepitude, about the readiness to crumble into dust from the very first touch. That is why you should never regret throwing anything away.
104. Often we even get sick because we keep all kinds of junk at home.
105. Leaving unnecessary things in the house, you thereby program yourself for poverty. Holding on to old things is a sure sign of the psychology of poverty. Old things do not provide an opportunity to acquire new ones, accumulate negative energy, which can affect health and good luck in general. Holding on to old things with the thought "What if there is no money to buy new things, and I will never have this again?" we program ourselves that we will not be able to earn and buy the things we need.
106. Do not keep cut flowers in a vase for a long time. First, they themselves, withering, bring death, and secondly, stagnant water is a negative energy. The memory of death is hidden in stuffed animals, herbariums, insect collections, dried flowers and even natural fur coats.
107. Never accumulate or store old things for a long time. Your life has become better, and they "pull" you into the past. Don't use the item for over a year - get rid of it. Only those objects that you like should "live" in the house, then there will be much less unfavorable zones.
108. Old worn-out slippers attract negative energy. Also, you should not keep torn, unusable clothes in the house. Dishes with cracks, chips disrupt the energy of food, making it hazardous to health. As much as you like the dishes, but if they are cracked, it is better to throw them away.
109. "In a dress that is not worn, resentment against the owner accumulates," said Vanga, advising not to accumulate unnecessary clothes at home. Things that a person has not worn for a long time tend to "collect" innegative energy that destroys the material well-being of the owners.
110. In space, the main thing is space. It is space, free space that is the beneficial energy of our home. By cluttering the space of the house with unnecessary things and rubbish, we cut off the energy flow of health, success, well-being and comfort.
111. To make it easier to determine whether you need a thing or not, ask yourself "if I move, will I pack it or get rid of it?"
112. Where is the most rubbish in your apartment or house - in wardrobes, on the balcony, in the bathroom? From there, start general cleaning. When disassembling wardrobes, throw away the things you don't need - those that you haven't used for over a year.
113. Putting things in order should be given special attention if there is a serious crisis or stagnation in the relationship in life. Dedicate at least six days to this and clean up yourself.
114. Trash attracts only trash.
115. Old perfume, pants and jugs are bad. This is programming yourself for a life without change. Each thing from the past brings back some memories, makes you look back. And this is dangerous you can't go back to the past, you can skip the future... We must ruthlessly and irrevocably break, tear, give away, dispose of. Anything you want to do with old things, but just do not store, do not clog the mezzanines, suitcases, boxes with rubbish, which will certainly be sent for subsequent storage to a garage or basement.
116. Holding on to old things with the thoughts “What if there’s no money to buy something new, and I will never have this again?”, We resonate with the mentality of the poor and get poverty. If we calmly throw away unnecessary things with the thought “I'll buy more or the Universe will give me better”, we resonate with the mentality of the rich and get wealth.
117. When we put on an old thing or splash with perfume that we have not used for a long time, or hear music from the past, we are literally taken back to the past. This is elementary NLP - all these so-called "Anchors" are emotional. Some memories are associated with old things (perfume, clothing, and everyone else) and they are automatically reproduced upon contact with the anchor. But the fact is that not only emotions appear - old thoughts appear in us, but this is very dangerous, because thoughts, as we know, shape life. So we shape life with old thoughts and get not what we want.
Classification of unnecessary things by Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen divided all the trash into the following categories:
Useless junk is things that are stored because they are, in principle, necessary, although not necessary for you personally. These can be numerous glass jars, which may come in handy someday when you are thinking of "twisting" something in them.
Trinkets - all kinds of useless souvenirs, key rings, postcards, figurines, magnets, etc.
Used trash is mostly old clothes and underwear, which we do not throw away just because we have not yet completely frayed to holes. How many T-shirts do you have in your closets that have long become shapeless and you don't wear them?
Pretentious junk - things that you have, but you only use it in your dreams. For example, a huge exercise bike that takes up a third of the room, and you think that someday I will start exercising on it in the morning. Or a service in the closet, from which they never ate or drank.
Unsuccessful purchases - sometimes, instead of admitting that we bought an unnecessary item, we put it on the far shelf in the hope that it will "come in handy someday." As a rule, poorly purchased items of clothing, shoes, bags and accessories fall into this category. But maybe unsuccessfully purchased cosmetics, which you don't want to use, but it's a pity to throw it away!
10 "valuable" things to throw in the trash immediately.
1. Cosmetics with an expired shelf life.
Why keep old mascara and lipstick? And collecting empty perfume bottles? Any cosmetics are created to make us more beautiful, and not to cause a bacterial infection.
2. Uncomfortable shoes.
Admit it, there are such shoes, putting on which, every time you curse them because of unbearable pains and blisters ?! Yes, they are very beautiful and stylish, but there are a million other shoes in the world that are comfortable. Can't you throw these shoes away? Put them in the most prominent place and sign: "My favorite instrument of torture."
3. Clothes "When I lose weight."
Somewhere in the far corner of the closet lies a neat stack of things that you dream of wearing when you lose those extra (only extra for you, no one else notices) kilograms. Yes, it works like motivation, but negative and depressing.
4. Postcards from people you don't remember.
A stack of greeting cards is kept in a small pretty box. The old ones. Banal and ugly. From people with whom you will never communicate. Why do you need this warehouse made of cardboard boxes with "sincere" wishes? Leave postcards only from loved ones, the rest is in the trash!
5. Porcelain dishes.
Museum exhibits must be kept in a museum! Take the old sets cluttering the sideboards and cupboards to your grandmother - put in their place better flowerpots with fresh flowers - no more naphthalene.
6. Paper spam.
Why drag various printed materials from the mailbox into the apartment? The only thing needed is utility bills. All the rest of the printed junk is unnecessary and unnecessary junk.
7. "Unbearable" underwear.
Who came up with the classification of linen "for critical days", "for every day" and "for a special occasion"? Conduct a revision and leave only panties and bras in which you feel especially sexy. And throw away all the tights with arrows on the mysterious mission "Under the Pants" (you will never wear them!).
8. Old phones, players and other equipment.
These valuable gadgets can be useful for young testing physicists for experiments, but you absolutely do not need them.
9. Books that you will never read.
Only your favorite books and those that are needed for work / study should be in a prominent place. The multivolume works of Marx or Gorky's "Life of Klim Samgin" are for the library or for processing, and not for collecting dust and creating the entourage of an intellectual.
10. Memories of former relationships.
Can't throw away your ex's shirt that still smells like his perfume? Or a stack of handwritten poetry written by a traitor just for you? Having got rid of material reminders, it is easier to throw the person out of the head. As they say, out of sight - out of mind!