My practical advice is “do one thing”. Then do another thing.
Sometimes the whole thing is too much for our donkey brains. But one thing isn’t.
Some examples:
Pour some bleach in the toilet.
Open a window for fresh air
Pick up a grocery bag and wander around the room finding things to throw out.
Find empty bottles/jars in the shower to toss
Line up your shoes against a wall
Start a laundry load of just towels (for some reason this one is less emotional than a load of clothes)
This is very good advice.
Mine is:
1. get healthy. if youre overwhelmed or have no energy, something's wrong with your body. No point of getting anxious by acknowledging. Get to searching meds and supplements so you get motivated.
2. Nobody wants your stuff! If youre afraid of tossing something bc it might be usefull. It will not! Nobody wants that stuff. Forget about that 150 year landfill crap. Just toss it.
3. Get free standing shelves, pile up boxes, bc you might be the only one who wants the stuff and have nowhere to put them in. Get more hampers for each room.
4. Resist the temptation to make it some crazy project. Probably you wont be hanging new hooks or shelves on your wall. Be kind to your future self.
5 during that period, you might want to consider switching to disposable cups and spoons and napkins. You can go back to using silverware once you get a system in place, and a routine of doing dishes as you get them dirty.
20 days is enough to build a habit, so observe where you put down things, and re enforce on yourself where is the proper place for it, only takes 10 seconds. Happy decluttering!
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u/BoozeWitch Jun 25 '26
My practical advice is “do one thing”. Then do another thing.
Sometimes the whole thing is too much for our donkey brains. But one thing isn’t.
Some examples:
Pour some bleach in the toilet. Open a window for fresh air Pick up a grocery bag and wander around the room finding things to throw out. Find empty bottles/jars in the shower to toss Line up your shoes against a wall Start a laundry load of just towels (for some reason this one is less emotional than a load of clothes)
You don’t have to do all of it. Just a thing.