“When I think about why I was hoarding stuff in the first place, there were a couple of reasons. One was that I cared about waste; I wasn’t going to sling perfectly useful items in the bin,” she continues. “However, there was more to it than that. I’d never needed to declutter. I’d never learned to let things go,” confesses Miles.
Miles now has an action plan for decluttering. It calls for creating a labeled, six-box system: donate, sell, recycle, repair, junk, and other. While most of these categories are self-explanatory, “other” includes items you are undecided about, which belong to someone else, or for which you need more time to evaluate. Room by room, every item is picked up and evaluated.
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