Janet Schiesl

Basic Organization

Whenever you try to organize and eliminate the unnecessary, do these dreaded questions arise?

• Should I get rid of this?
• Will I need it someday?
• Will that day ever come?

Here’s a method I suggest to my clients. An experiment really.

• Firstly, empty everything from a confined space: like a kitchen drawer, dresser drawer, desk drawer, closet shelf, bulletin board, glove compartment, purse. . . I could go on.
• Secondly, put it all into a cardboard box. Write the date on the box. Stash that box not too far away.
• Finally, if an item is needed, simply get it, use it, and then return it to its original location.

I think you’ll find that you use the same items often and leave a lot of unused items in the box. Eventually, as time goes by you’ll see that a lot of what you are storing is stuff for someday. How long will you keep stuff for someday?

One month after you filled the box, consider what you haven’t needed.  In six months realize the items you haven’t used for 1/12 of the year! Surprisingly, there may be quite a few items. Could you do without them?  Can you let that stuff go?

Whenever my clients use this method they are often quite surprised at what is left in the box.

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