Plans fell through this week, but I was considering doing this instead for an article anyway. This time using a video isn’t a filler but one I wanted to share with you guys. After all, this is about decluttering with the goal of having an easier time managing my stuff. The idea is using my mindset for me: “I have an article to write, I must clean something!” And if anyone gets a benefit from following my progress, so much the better. Even the reviews are going towards that goal, seeing if I really want to keep something or not and why. Plus there’s the Clutter For Sale section, which hasn’t been completely useless.

Sometime during the week and without prompting, YouTube recommended “How Decluttering Is Actually Making You Messier”, a video by That Practical Mom. This isn’t a decluttering method video, like some I’ve used as actual filler. (…too many times last year.) Instead, the host, Kallie Branciforte, looks at how we might be doing it wrong by being trapped in a cycle. From the video description:

If decluttering really worked, we’d only have to do it once. Meaning most of us would be done by now. But, that’s not what happens… why? I’m digging into an interesting fact I’ve come to know about decluttering. How most of us get caught in a loop: Buy, accumulate, declutter, feel better, repeat. Why? And how do we get out of this loop?

I don’t know if we ever stop decluttering. I have bought few new things since I’ve been out of work and sick. And yet I still find that some of my methods have been incomplete or some of my records have piled up as I get medical reports and other things in the mail. Sometimes a layout I made turned out to not work or I want to redo the dividers in my art supply drawers. (I’m bouncing between two ideas on that. Hopefully I’ll choose something soon, which you’ll see in action here on this site.) So there are more issues that this loop. That doesn’t mean that she’s wrong, either, since I started this site while I still had regular income and there had to be a problem there somehow. Let’s look at her video and see if she indeed does have a point. We can always do better. Also, hamster trivia. ‘Kay.

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