Not Motivated At All To
Declutter-Your-Home?

It's time to do some cleaning out and you feel frozen, like you just can't seem to move. I feel this way especially in the Spring when I know this is the best time to get it done, and I don't have a problem with hoarding.

As the snow melts, and I can see the damage done to the yard over the Winter, I know what's involved in getting things looking nice for the summer. In the meantime, I still have inside housework going on, outside work to do, and a job to go to. There doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day sometimes for the more detailed job of organizing that I have to do.

Though the situation seems hopeless enough to almost paralyze
me sometimes, it eventually always gets done.

For me, three things help me get going and keep up the momentum.

I have taken the pressure of a time-limit away.

For some reason, I always designated the end of May as
the time when everything had to be finished. It dawned
on me one day, that there was just no reason for this.
With time being limited for other things, it just wasn't
realistic.

And so, I see the Spring and the Summer in general as the
timeframe. It's a work in progress to declutter-your-home,
and realistically, takes a few months at least.


I have to force myself to stop seeing the overall picture.

This is where the "overwhelmed" feeling comes in. I can't
look at closets and cupboards, drawers, and the basement
for example all at once. It just upsets me. I make myself
pick one spot, and concentrate on that one area until it is
finished. Move on only when that area is the way I want it.


Everything has a place, and everything has a home.

This is the best way to train your thinking in terms of
getting things put away and organized. Whether it's inside
or outdoor items being given away, put in the trash, donated
or being sold, it doesn't matter.

Categorize and give every item a particular spot for where
it is headed, or where it is going to stay permanently in
your house.


Depending on how much you have accumulated over a time
period, the sorting process can be frustrating, but there are organizational-tips to deal with these things.

The rule to follow usually if you are serious and want to start
to declutter-your-home is if you haven't used it, worn
it, or thought about it in six months to a year, than it's
likely you don't need the item. You should dispose of it, and
you won't miss it either.





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Well, when it comes time to declutter-your-home, these
decisions can pose quite a dilemma or not even apply.

Some of us like to collect certain things. We all have some
family treasures and valuables we want to keep forever.

We may have been raised to not throw certain things away, because
that is being very smart and very thrifty. Too much of this extreme can cause a problem though when it comes to declutter-your-home.

Certainly I think everything has it's boundaries and limits,
as well as reasonable circumstances when deciding what to keep.


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You can however, differentiate between what is defined as
someone who clutters or hoards, but shows excessive compulsive
behaviors in that area.

These excessive behaviors would result in for example, the
accummulation of gigantic collections of limited or valueless
items that are of no use at all. Not only can't the owner
bring themselves to part with these incredible piles of "junk",
they can't seem to organize or follow through the entire
process of an attempt to get started. If you have tons of
time, and can't seem to accomplish anything, personally I
think that would definately be an issue.

Attention-deficit-disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD) seems to
play a part in the symptoms exhibited by those people who are
obsessed with compulsive-hoarding. This would surely affect
the ability to declutter-your-home.

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So, maybe there is something else going on with someone you know who you might have always classed as messy, a terrible housekeeper, or just not as organized as you are.


Is This Someone You Know? Is This You?

*This series of questions were formed by a Recovery Group, who feel that the answers may have some significance on the extreme inability to organize.

Does thinking about clutter overwhelm you?

Do your repeated efforts to clean up and get organized not last?

Are you ashamed to have people in your house?

Do you buy things constantly for fear of running out?

Do you have multiples of everything, simply because you couldn't
find the original in the first place when you wanted it?

Does your partner comment negatively about living conditions?

Do you feel like you never accomplish anything fully as you
flit from one chore to the next? Could be a tendency to ADHD.

The more noise, the better you can concentrate? Possible ADHD
tendency.

Are you easily distracted? Possible ADHD tendency.

Do you use the excuse that it will just get messy again anyway
to stop your efforts when trying to declutter-your-home?

Do you keep things that are broken, because you think that
someday you will fix them?

Do you hold onto poor relationships because you don't think
you can do any better?

Do you believe you aren't deserving of better than what you
have now?

Does your life feel lacking as opposed to being successful?

Is it hard to determine what is reasonable to keep and what isn't?

Obsessed with hoarding food? Could you feed an army with what you have on hand right now? - Symptom of hoarding.

Do you keep obvious trash items like food-boxes, paper wrappers,
garbage items that have obvious odors to them? - Symptom of hoarding.

Answering "yes" up to 4 questions - You probably don't have
cluttering problems.

Answering "yes" up to 5 or more questions - You may be a clutterer, and chronically disorganized.

Don't despair. Help and advice is available to help you, which can enable you to declutter-your-home once and for all.

Clutterless Recovery Group


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