Clearing clutter and clatter in your life

[meercat]

Have you noticed clutter and clatter around your place?

*is your house like a typhoon hit it and full of clutter?

*is Your mind full of clatter.. problems, media clatter, family clatter telling you how you should do things, be, say, act.

Yes, i know google can tell us what to do.. but you might like to take a moment and look around your home, your head.

Its meercat den cleaning month here at the moment, my home is breeding notebooks..notes everywhere..what to do, what to say,where to go.

You know the kind of stuff, neat piles of it.. but lots of it, articles from the 80's.

Magazines, recipes, things to do..i could not use them in a lifetime.

The clatter.. no one needs to tell me what to do..i already have an army of meercats chattering in my head.

How to remedy this situation..you tell me!!

Cheers

meercat xx

[CMF]

Hi meercat, graet thread.

Clearing clutter from our homes helps clear the mind. My house has been a mess last few days but i've had a big tidy up today, vacuumed, opened windows and doors, cleaned bathroom and it feels a it better. freeing up space visually in a room helps create space in our minds i believe. When we see clutter everywhere it is overwhelming, not knowing where to start. Our brains can't function.

Clearing the clatter, well maybe a walk or some exercise, even doing housework and keeping busy. Getting busy clearing the clutter can clear the clatter.

cmf x

[quirkywords]

Meercat

What a great thread.

I am a lapsed hoarder but it hard when you have a shop as I need to buy stock.

I am also messy and disorganised.

One article I read and it did help me a bit. It said there two type of people filers and pilers.

Filers, file-put everything away- a place for everything and everything in its place.

Their house is in order.

Pilers have huge piles of stuff everywhere and put things away as they create piles in some sort of order.

The theory is if you make someone who piles into a filer, that will end in a chaotic mess.

What you do, is order the piles, say in the laundry have a ;pile for dirty washing , for clean washing etc. Or getting a box to put all your notebooks in, some they are in one place.

For me it was at first putting all my photos in a huge box that one day I will sort through.

I had about ten big plastic storage boxes now I have 4. So it can happen but not overnight!!

It is just a theory and will not suit everyone.

I know my tendency to pile so I try to find a place for things. It is a slow process as I think the tendency to clutter is genetic.

Great topic, meercat.

[velvetfaerie]

I am actually quite the opposite. I am quite a minimalist. I clean etc a lot when I am anxious/stressed.

I have a spare room with some junk in it but what I have would fill one wheelie bin.

I guess this is because I have moved house so much.

Today my mind is a mess and I am already planning what to do when i get home. Clean the bird. Vacuum. Mop. Washing. I really should be socialising but ........ yeh....... sick of making the effort there.

V.

[Guest_128]

Hey Cat,

Sorry its getting Later in the day,I think I have lost the plot,

I want to Thankyou for making me laugh today,

I'll be back.

😂

[Ggrand]

Hello

I am some what like a hoarder

AFTER reading a post yesterday about how to work at distraction, (cleaning being one of them)to help with depression

i looked around my home today and I had piles of dirty laundry, piles of mugs and spoons, piles of dust on ornaments ( a hundred or so, as I used to collect small antiques). Piles of old magazines

I decided I would give it a go to clean my house it did distract a little from the chatter

cleaning the clutter did help clean the chatter for a while.

Ggrand

[white knight]

Hi meercat

What a great topic.

Ornaments! I cant stand too many. So you can imagine my discomfort when visiting a friends house recently for the first time while interstate

Stuffed toys in every lounge chair, ornaments on every table, hardly an inch of wall vacant. We enjoyed a tea but had nowhere to place the cup. And clostrophobia! !

Anyway its their home.

Id only recommend putting aside one hour a day to decluttering. Be ruthless.

Knew an old man that collected simpson washing machine electric motors. "Someone will need one one day" 30 years later he passed away. Within a month the shed was bulldozed, motors and all.

Tony WK

[blondguy]

Hi Meercat

As TonyWK mentioned....what a good topic!

I used to have heaps of clutter inside and out.....until I became as Tony mentioned...."Ruthless"

If I dont use any clothing for 2+ years...it gets the boot....to the brotherhood...

I just gave all my 'Bessey' German clamps away to a guy that works in the local 'Mens Shed'....They were brand new but have been in my garage for 20+ years and never used

My brother will keep a piece of timber that will 'come in handy' one day.....I also used to have a ton of stuff that 'would come in handy' one day. My garage is nearly empty..yay! My brother cant say the same unfortunately

Still in the process of de-cluttering though......a work in progress 🙂

Great thread Meercat!

Paul

[StitcherMum]

Brilliant thread idea. I definitely find that a clean and clear space helps to really order my thoughts. I have recently done a reorganisation and more needs doing. I am not minimalist per se. But reading some minimalist blogs has certainly helped me go through my stuff.

I am working on the idea that less 'stuff' means less worry and less stress. I am selling the things on gumtree worth selling, I am donating the things worth donating and recycling things that can be and tossing the rest.

Before I buy anything to bring into my home, I am really considering whether I need it. The exception to that rule is hobby stuff. My cross stitching, colouring and piano supplies bring me lots of joy and are always needed 😉

[meercat]

Hi. Just read ur post. Back from short break...one huge nightmare.

i luv ur saying..

"Clear the clutter & clear the clatter."

Cheers

meercat xx