Stuffocation- anyone read it?

[Smiler1972]

Heard this guy on Simon Mayo whilst driving home from work tonight. Anyone read it - is it worth a look or is it common sense and will basically be another book on the shelf along with all the other stuff?

I'm think the whole KonMari approach is a little daunting for me and I'd like to do a bag of crap room at a time as it will be more manageable for me.

If you want to clear a room at a time or a bag at a time, then just clear a room/bag at a time! Surely?

I am very prone to reading about housework instead of actually doing it. Decluttering books sometimes have the odd nugget of gold information, but mostly it's decide what to keep and what to toss. And crack on with it. You can follow KonMarie and/or item a day/bag a day threads on here for support and inspiration.

Thank you - I will look at the threads in baga day etc.

I'm procrastinating and looking for an easy system that I know doesn't exist!

I have been doing a kind of Marie Kondo. Steadily grouping all my things of the same kind together is actually really helpful for being able to trim down unnnecessary stuff.

I did though start with a general steady purge through a cupboard or a chest of drawers at a time. Once the top umm layer was gone it was then easier to start grouping stuff and whittling it down in context. I’ve still got a couple of drawers of eurgh I have no idea what to do with what’s in here but I do a few bits out of them every so often and they are going down.

Good luck OP! Slow and steady you can do it!

I have to do it. I know it will make me feel better and everything just feels like 'stuff' at the moment. I'm disgusted with the amount of things I have.

I would happily pay someone to come and clear my house - like a life laundry! Any takers

I often wonder if another cluttered person could help declutter someone else's house. Two would be more fun and get it done quicker but could stress friends.

Smiler1972 It can be done. I lurked on the get rid of a carrier bag a day thread last year and managed to get rid of 358 carrier bags of clutter in a year (this included furniture and baby / toddler stuff and stuff in the garage and sheds so not as bad as it sounds!). I am now on the get rid of one thing a day. I am roughly following Kondo principles so I am organising my things as well as decluttering. It is slow but I find if I set a timer for half an hour a day of something or I spend five minutes looking in a cupboard when I'm in a room it doesn't feel like it takes up so much time. I still have a lot to do but it has made such a big, big difference.

Bowerbird I agree with you the people on the thread keep telling each other to throw stuff out! It's so much easier when someone tells you you don't actually need something. My house has always been superficially tidy (things hidden in spare bedroom and very, very packed cupboards) and I would've died if someone in real life had opened a cupboard door!

I've read it, and it was a real page-turner. I've also read and done Marie Kondo and they're both quite different in content and style.

I'd say go for it, if you want a good read.

That sounds good smiler. I haven't read either. I am trying the Flylady though I don't follow it exactly. You have to swap it around a bit if you work. However I do find that I am more motivated and I am keeping going. The fifteen minutes on a task works because fifteen minutes isn't daunting, you quite often do more because you want to and if you do it regularly it eventually means the task gets completed. There is a fling bogie to as well as zone to clean. The only bit of Marie Kondo I have seen is the u die drawer. I have folded them and continue to as I can get more in.
I know think before buying anything. Do I need this, do I need this cluttering up my house. It helps decisions.