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Let's talk about ADHD and cleaning
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This applies to decluttering with ADHD as well.
- www.themostlysimplelife.com How to Declutter Your Home Fast - The (mostly) Simple Life
In my guide to “declutter your home“, I usually recommend tackling decluttering projects a little bit at a time. Even just 15 minutes a day. However, you may be in …
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Clutterbug Quiz - Your Organizing Style
clutterbug.me Take the Quiz - What's Your Organizing Style?Organizing isn’t one size fits all, there are four different organizing styles. Take the quiz and discover what style you are.
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Sentimentality vs "Historicity"
This may just be a "me thing", but a decluttering-related musing I'd like to share in case it resonates with anyone else.
>'what is "historicity"?'
>'When a thing has history in it. Listen. One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt's pocket when he was assassinated. And one wasn't. One has historicity, a hell of a lot of it. As much as any object ever had. And one has nothing .... You can't tell which is which. There's no "mystical plasmic presence", no "aura" around it.
\- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, pages 65-66
The Man in the High Castle is an excellent, weird book, but I've noticed that the concept of "historicity" is present in much more mundane places than the kind of cultural artifacts it's used in reference to in the book. Like in family heirlooms and some of my own "sentimental" items.
An example, I have a "sentimental trinkets" box on my bedside table. Inside, I had a toy that I played with as a small child over 25 years ago, but I didn't have any specific memories attached to it. I just knew I'd had it decades and moved continents with it, so I assumed it was precious. In hindsight it wasn't sentimental at all, it was the historicity that made me keep it. So I stopped keeping it.
Another toy in that box that I'd also had over 25 years has a specific memory and story attached and makes me smile when I think about it, but it's not even the same toy that features in the memory. And because the primary association is with that story and that memory, I don't think of it as "a toy I've had since I was 4", I think of it as "the toy bought to replace the identical one I lost in the ocean and picked up a live crab while searching for it".
As a lover of museums and archeology I don't think historicity is a bad concept to value when it's on a more grand, cultural scale, but within one lifetime I've learned to appreciate the distinction and let go of things that aren't actually valuable.
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Some of the Major Principles of Decluttering - A Tidy Mind
www.atidymind.co.uk Some Of The Major Principles Of DeclutteringThinking of embarking on a decluttering journey. A Tidy Mind Professional Organisers & Declutterers share major principles of decluttering
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Uncluttered Simplicity - 3 things that will sabotage decluttering efforts
unclutteredsimplicity.com 3 Things That Will Sabotage Even The Best Decluttering Efforts | Organize & DeclutterHas life gotten in the way of decluttering? Here are 3 things that will sabotage even the best decluttering efforts and what you can do about them.
And advice on how to combat them.
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Caroline Winkler - "home organisation for chaotic people"
While the video is titled "home organisation" it has some good decluttering tips. Also I just love her.
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"New Retired Me" on his journey to declutter
This video was linked in the declutter community on squabbles.io, and makes for good inspiration. Plus he's just quite nice to listen to.
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The 30-Day Minimalism Game - Day 1
I chose to remove the old unless keys out of one of my draws as my first item. (I know I could have counted each key as single items but I thought it woud be better just getting rid of them all in one go).