27 Fling Boogie
Some thoughts on clutter from Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley:
- Are you living in CHAOS? (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome?)
- Clutter affects you mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially.
- Clutter is the enemy of feng shui. Clutter causes the chi (energy) of your home to stagnate.
Clutter steals your money! You know you own a specific item, but you cannot find it when you need it, so you’re forced to run out and buy another.
Clutter steals your time, energy, and sanity! How much money do you spend each year trying to “organize” and manage your clutter? How much time do you invest?
Clutter cannot be organized! Evict your clutter and breathe a sigh of relief!
Today, we are doing the “27-Fling Boogie!”
- Grab a trash bag and run through the house as fast as you can and dispose of 27 items.
- Put the bag in the trash.
- Do not look through it.
- Don’t re-clutter your home – De-Clutter!
The point is to do this as quickly as possible so we are not spending more time than necessary decluttering and we can get to the fun stuff in our day.
Alternatively, you could visit The Plan , a nifty little website I found that handles the various problems and issues associated with “disposophobia”. This is what they had to say:
DISPOSOPHOBIA The Fear of Getting Rid of Stuff..
People who suffer from maladies such as depression or obsessive compulsive disorders often end up buying things, bringing them home and dropping them. Rather than looking for what they own, they simply go out and buy more and do the same thing…..over and over and over again.
We call this behavior….. Shop ‘n Drop.
This is only one of the many issues that we address and provide solutions. The Plan for you or a loved one’s recovery can be found at 1 800 THE PLAN. Recovery could be just days away…call 1-800-THE PLAN to schedule an appraisal.
Note:
Bear in mind that this post was written in 2007, and the website and phone number may no longer be viable.
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Comments from 2007:
Melissa J
That was fun. My one-year-old kitty was a big help. (Or he thinks he was, anyway.) He followed me around from room to room, helping me look in cabinets and closets for things to get rid of, and trying most desperately to play with my makeup brushes and inspect everything I was throwing away. There’s a cute little funny poem about how cats think “helping” and “hindering” mean the same thing. Very accurate! But it was nice to get rid of a whole bag of trash.
Anonymous
I would not get into the relationships that I have had if it were not for the clutter!
shirley
Disposophobia?? How funny is that.. and the really stupid thing about it is that I actually have stuff in bags that I bought, brought in, and dropped “wherever” and it’s still there!!! Yikes!
What is clutter anyway? What is it really? Is it trash? I might have to look it up in the dictionary just to be sure.. LOL
I can run around my house and pick up 27 items of trash pretty easily. I can run around my house and pick up 27 things and put them away. I can run around my house and pick up 27 things that I could sell on eBay..
Very challenging. It might take me several hours to sort through the “stuff” and decide what is clutter and what is not.
So I think I am going to opt for the 27 items of trash.. and wait to see if anyone can help me with a good definition of clutter.
Melissa J
Marla Cilley, the FlyLady (who wrote the Sink Reflections book we are using this month), says clutter is anything you do not USE or do not LOVE. If you don’t use it and you don’t love it, it’s just taking up space in your home, your life, and that’s valuable space that should be made available for something you will use and love. For me, clutter includes trash, unopened mail, an armoire of my grandmother’s that I find ugly but my husband likes, all the unread romance novels on my bookshelf, all the cosmetics I bought on sale and will never use…it goes on and on. Apparently I have some decluttering to do!
shirley
Ok. That helps. Thanks Melissa. I’ll get right to it.