Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living by Tsh Oxenreider

Author:Tsh Oxenreider [Oxenreider, Tsh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Cleaning; Caretaking & Organizing, House & Home, Non-Fiction, Self Help
ISBN: 9781440302633
Google: dUy1mAEACAAJ
Amazon: B0064X8URW
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2010-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

If you’re hemming and hawing over an item, create a new box labeled “maybe” and write today’s date on it. Put the item in there and store it in your garage or closet. Put a note on your calendar to check the box three months from today’s date. Access the box as needed, but if, after three months, you’re seeing those items for the first time (and they’re not obviously seasonal), you don’t need them. Looks like you have your answer.

The Dreaded Yard Sale

While you sweep through your home, arm yourself with stickers or masking tape and a marker, and price the items before moving them to the “sell” box. Pricing things now means not having to deal with a motherload of decision making later, and this will be the last time you’ll have to see the things until the yard sale.

If you’ve kept an item in hopes that it’s a collectible, use the Internet to find its value. Each category of collectible has seasons of highs and lows, so if you checked an item within the past year, check it again. EBay is a useful tool to find an item’s going rate, and if the value looks some-what promising, it might be worth it to post it and sell online. But if the value isn’t worth the effort to pack and ship the item, then either post the thing on Craigslist or add it to your growing yard sale inventory.

Whatever you do, don’t keep it with the hope of its value rising. It won’t rise enough to be worth the rent in your home. Get rid of it. Get rid of it now.

Yard sales get a bum rap, and possibly with due cause. They’re a lot of work, sometimes the profit doesn’t feel worth the effort, and you have to get up at the crack of dawn on the weekends. But I want to argue the point that having a yard sale works psychologically to your advantage, and that the added benefit is extra change in your pocket.

I want you to schedule a yard sale sometime in the next two months — don’t wait any longer, or else your “stuff” will seep back into your home, or you’ll get used to the items dotting your garage’s landscape. You can wait an extra month or so only if you’re waiting on a preplanned neighborhood yard sale weekend or if you plan to participate in a larger gathering, such as a church sale.

Here are the reasons you need to take the time and effort required for a yard sale:

1. You’ll Remember the Pain and Be Less Apt to Collect More Clutter

Much like the psychology behind making a child pay with chores for the broken window shattered by his baseball, forcing yourself to collect all of those things you don’t need and sell them from your yard will hopefully deter you from needing to go through this effort again. If a weekend’s devotion to selling your wares wipes you out, why go through it again? Perhaps you’ll stop inviting needless clutter into your home in the first place.

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