Moving house is a great time to make a clean break and reduce the clutter that is present in your life. While you will of course bring many of your possessions with you, take advantage of the tabula rasa of a new house by leaving certain things behind rather than taking them with you or packing them up for the removalists. Some things will just need to be thrown away, but there are many items that would be worth giving to someone you know who would want them, a charity shop, or a school fête. Holding a garage sale to get rid of as much as possible is a great idea before you move, and certainly can simplify the job of packing. If you have the time, there are a few good strategies to implement in cutting out the clutter:
1. Start small and work your way up
Although this might not necessarily be practical advice if you are moving soon, if you have the time, try to limit how much you sort through each day. If you try and declutter your entire house at once you will soon start to experience decision fatigue and start to either hang on to far too much or get exasperated and chuck the lot, including things that you probably should have kept. Limit yourself to one room per day if possible.
2. Don’t ask ‘will I use it?’; ask ‘do I use it?’
It is very easy to justify holding on to objects that are useless to you by convincing yourself that you may have a use for them one day. Get real about things. If you haven’t actually used them for the time that you have been in one house, what are the chances that if you pack them up for the removals van that you will actually use them in your new house? To be honest, even if you do have a need for the item in the future, what do you think is the probability that you will actually remember that you have it, take the effort to unbury it, and use it, rather than just going out and buying a new one. This is particularly the case for things like plastic plates, collections of ribbons, empty jars, and the like. A few crafty and creative people may actually use these regular cheap movers Melbourne at http://www.melbournequickremovals.com.au/. Many more people feel that it would be a waste to throw them away, but just accumulate because they don’t actually have a use for them.
3. Be circumspect about what you give away
Other people or op shops are not your removalists melbourne Eastern Suburbs. It’s one thing if an item (such as clothes or books) could be genuinely valuable for a charity collection, or if someone you know has actually asked you for a collection of jars or bottle tops. These aren’t the sort of things that you should just dump on people as an unwelcome gift, however.
