The Clutter Fairy Weekly #89
The Value Equation: Mental Models for Making Sense of Our Clutter
A lot of conflicting factors compete in our heads as we weigh whether to keep or let go of stuff. Thoughts and feelings about price, value, beauty, and sentiment struggle against harsh realities of space limitations, dust, time, and mobility. In episode #89 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines mental models that contribute to the complexity of keep–toss decisions and offers strategies for making choices that work for your life.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
A Newer Model
This week’s assignment is to examine the mental models at work in your relationship with stuff:
- Take inventory of mental models that might be contributing to the difficulty of your decluttering decisions. Besides the ones we’ve mentioned today, what other models, rules, stories, or habits of thought come into play for you?
- Identify a model that seems to be complicating or interfering with your organizing process. Think about where you got it—your parents, your own experience, from the larger culture, etc.
- Think about whether you could manage without this mental model, or consider shifting or modifying it to produce better results.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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