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DAE want to just throw out all the stuff?
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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omg I feel this so hard! It's like I declutter at least once a month and it's never enough. I always feel so overwhelmed and claustrophobic and I don't even have that much stuff. It actually makes me feel really on edge and I sometimes even get snappy with my partner because I feel like everything is in such a mess even though realistically it's not. I just like everything to be as tidy as possible. Visual clutter makes me feel so stressed! At this point I'm on a journey towards minimalism but living in a country with such a changeable climate means needing different clothes. So then I need to think about how to store them and swap them out multiple times a year and it's just like...No. I don't have the energy.
It all got too much for me after I moved house and I ended up donating almost all of my hobby / craft items and pretty much half of my clothes. Sometimes I want to get rid of everything but you know...we do need some stuff to function.
I really relate to your post! Something I found helpful was these clutter bug categories. I am very much a Ladybug when I'm low on mental energy, no matter how much I want to be a Cricket. I just shove everything out of sight so that it's surface level tidy, even though when you open a drawer its a total mess lol.
Agreed on visual clutter being so stressful! I feel like I cleared out so much junk in the last move and have moved quite frequently but somehow there's always more stuff around. My poor partner likes to have a lot of clothes and I don't want to go and throw out his suits and vests even though he doesn't wear them (with the pandemic and all), but now they're in a box in the corner of the living room and hung up in the bedroom and I can see them every time I go by! And I know there's a cheap second hand warehouse store nearby so I could get all kinds of storage but it feels like a whole mountain to climb.
I feel called out by the clutter bug Bee description. I have organised chaos on top of every available table top, I know where everything is but my partner has no idea where anything is (I mean he loses things on his desk as well and I know what's in his desk drawers). I can keep drawers vaguely tidy but hate these old deep drawers that make stuff pile on top of stuff rather than having their own place, so anything that doesn't fit goes on top of a desk.
It was actually easy when we got a puppy and everything had to be out of reach, but she's learn not to grab anything so I don't even have that as a motivator.