For me, moving is a miserable word, and I still can’t forget one summer when three big cars didn’t finish moving the household items and ended up paving an entire hallway in the landlord’s twelve o’clock limit. It was the most embarrassing day of my life so far, with all my stuff piled up in the stairs and in front of the unit door, as if I had been stripped naked in front of people.Then it was ridiculous to find a huge bag of food that had been with me through three residences during this year’s spring cleaning, they ended up missing the three-year shelf life they had, and the constant moving didn’t remind me to eat it

I’m a hoarder who believes in the concept of giving up, and as a result, I’m not happy with the hoarding and the giving up.

I’ve decided to give in to my natural instincts, after all, I’ll never be the protagonist of “My House is Empty” and I still like my space to be relatively content!

But I think our problem is still too much stuff, not a lack of storage skills.

Whenever we want to clean up, we tend to throw away a lot of things in one go, to catch a trendy this is called “break away”, but the face of the empty place, we tend to spend a lot of money to buy and be thrown away almost the same items, so our space is stuffed again, and then these actions continue to repeat themselves!

Whether it’s shed or minimalist living, it’s about a normal life style, not just a single action, and many people think of them as simply throwing things away, which is very one-sided.

Recently our dormitory has emerged from the trend of storage, but after finishing the space is still very confined to store many items, we have some things that can not be lost, such as delicate small gift boxes, small toys, but more things are once bought repeated products, such as our dormitory per capita more than two sets of water and milk skin care products of various colors, they are very good, but the face is so big, it is inevitable that the consumption of slow some

So that the management of goods is a two-way management of in and out, only focus on the loss of throwing, inevitably also less buy buy buy

I used to be crazy about hoarding to what extent? When I encountered clothes and shoes that I liked, I would want to buy them again and again because I was afraid of not having something so good to use.

However, in fact, there are often better ones waiting for you, and there is basically no irreplaceable items.

I think the real reason for me to stock up comes from my inner insecurity, and I feel a sense of satisfaction when I see so many things inside

I had a phone call with my mom to discuss this after thinking through these issues, because to a large extent she also has a hoarding addiction, even to a much greater extent than I do, and she agreed with some of my thoughts. We may be growing up and becoming invulnerable, but there is still a little child inside of us, holding on to the scars of the past and crying.

To really break this situation, we have to let the inner child out in the sun, have a good hug with her, and stop ignoring her

So I have divided my current item management into three steps:

Throw away items that no longer fit you (including expired products, freebies you don’t like, gifts that don’t fit you and can’t really be ruthless enough to throw away, or you can choose to pass them on, donate them or resell them)

categorize and inventory your previous hoard to make sure you know the quantity, then gradually consume it (the most important thing is not to re-hoard in the process of consuming)

as consumables continue to reduce, space will gradually free up, after the additions will be well thought out, no longer blindly buy buy buy

Room clutter organizing is fine, with dust cleaning on the line, but the real solution to hoarding is to reconcile with your past, find out what factors caused the hoarding addiction, and then untie the knot.

Recommended book: The Hoarding in You by Robin Zasho

I listened to a part of this book off and on through Himalaya, and although I didn’t finish it, I felt a lot of benefits. For the first time, I considered the relationship with objects from my own inner perspective, and no longer just dealt with them from the behavior.

I hope everyone can have a clean heart and environment