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Creating a Feeling of Open Space

11/21/2022

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Tip #7 Create a Feeling of Open Space.

Wishing you all a beautiful week of connections in your living space.

Shera

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Becoming Minimalist- Why the world needs Organizational Alchemy

5/15/2019

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Here are some interesting tidbits on the stuff we own...or maybe, on the stuff that owns us! #BecomingMinimalist
1. There are 300,000 items in the average American home (LA Times).
2. The average size of the American home has nearly tripled in size over the past 50 years (NPR).
3. And still, 1 out of every 10 Americans rent offsite storage—the fastest growing segment of the commercial real estate industry over the past four decades. (New York Times Magazine).
4. While 25% of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park cars inside them and 32% only have room for one vehicle. (U.S. Department of Energy).
5. The United States has upward of 50,000 storage facilities, more than five times the number of Starbucks. Currently, there is 7.3 square feet of self storage space for every man, woman and child in the nation. Thus, it is physically possible that every American could stand—all at the same time—under the total canopy of self storage roofing (SSA).
6. British research found that the average 10-year-old owns 238 toys but plays with just 12 daily (The Telegraph).
7. 3.1% of the world’s children live in America, but they own 40% of the toys consumed globally (UCLA).
8. The average American woman owns 30 outfits—one for every day of the month. In 1930, that figure was nine (Forbes).
9. The average American family spends $1,700 on clothes annually (Forbes).
10. While the average American throws away 65 pounds of clothing per year (Huffington Post).
11. Nearly half of American households don’t save any money (Business Insider).
12. But our homes have more television sets than people. And those television sets are turned on for more than a third of the day—eight hours, 14 minutes (USA Today).
13. Some reports indicate we consume twice as many material goods today as we did 50 years ago (The Story of Stuff).
14. Currently, the 12 percent of the world’s population that lives in North America and Western Europe account for 60 percent of private consumption spending, while the one-third living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 3.2 percent (Worldwatch Institute).
15. Americans donate 1.9% of their income to charitable causes (NCCS/IRS). While 6 billion people worldwide live on less than $13,000/year (National Geographic).
16. Americans spend more on shoes, jewelry, and watches ($100 billion) than on higher education (Psychology Today).
17. Shopping malls outnumber high schools. And 93% of teenage girls rank shopping as their favorite pastime (Affluenza).
18. Women will spend more than eight years of their lives shopping (The Daily Mail).
19. Over the course of our lifetime, we will spend a total of 3,680 hours or 153 days searching for misplaced items.The research found we lose up to nine items every day—or 198,743 in a lifetime. Phones, keys, sunglasses, and paperwork top the list (The Daily Mail).
20. Americans spend $1.2 trillion annually on nonessential goods—in other words, items they do not need (The Wall Street Journal).
21. The $8 billion home organization industry has more than doubled in size since the early 2000’s—growing at a staggering rate of 10% each year (Uppercase).

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Letting Go of Stuff! Organizational Alchemy Tips

8/5/2016

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Letting Go of Stuff

1. Do I love it?
2. Do I need it?
3. Does it reflect who I am now in my life?
4. Does it act as an environmental affirmation to me?
5. What positive and/or negative thoughts, memories, or emotions do I associate with it?
6. Does it need to be fixed or repaired, and am I willing to do so now?
7. If I moved tomorrow, would I choose to take it with me?
8. If it is time to let it go, am I going to sell, lend or give it away, and when?

The Decluttering Hour
You’ll need three boxes. Label one Donate. The second one Recycle. The third Give to a Friend.

Here’s what you do. Pick up everything, one thing at a time, and ask yourself:
Do I use this? Have I used it in the past year?
Will I use it again in the next three months?
Do I love it? Does it have meaning for me?

If the answer is No, pick a box and let it go.

Repeat the Decluttering Hour once a week until you are complete with all the spaces in your life (car, office, garage, and every room, closet, drawer in your home)

40 Bags in 40 Days
Simple. Fill one bag a day of stuff that you no longer need or use. This could also include paper and files. Do this for 40 days!

Building Community with Your Stuff

Host a Give- Away Party
Host a Clothing Swap
Organize a Neighborhood Block Sale
FreeCycle
The Sharing Solution (Nolo Press)
http://shareable.net
Start a Less Stuff, More Fun campaign
Join Green America’s campaign #insteadofstuff

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