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Dealing with Feelings of Sentimentality, Sadness,
and Denial When
Organizing Closet Clutter

Advice for Dealing With Your
Emotions When Organizing
Closet Clutter

When decluttering your closet, irrational feelings may start to arise that threaten your progress. You may experience feelings of sadness, loss, sentimentality, guilt, and denial. You may even start rationalizing that you need everything and cannot part with anything. These feelings can slow down the organizing process and may even halt it completely. At the very least, they will diminish the desired end result.

Effective decluttering is essential to the closet organization process. If you retain clothes and accessories that provide no value, you won't be able to optimize your use of space. It's important, therefore, to deal with your feelings so that your decisions about what to keep are objective.

You can motivate yourself to make objective decisions by considering all the costs associated with clutter. Perhaps you have experienced some or all of the following:

Taking too long to get ready because you have difficulty finding things when you need them.
Having to rebuy items that you already own because you often lose things.
Embarassment due to the appearance of your storage space.
Frustration because you sometimes forget what is clean and what isn't.
Having to store things in an inconvenient place because there's no room left in your closet.

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Now, consider everything that you have to gain by getting rid of belongings that you do not wear. Decluttering will allow you to:

Fit more of what matters into your closet.
Find things faster because there is less to look through.
Enhance the appearance of your closet.
Buy more clothes without having to worry about where you'll store it.

You can get even more leverage for making objective decisions by considering the benefits of selling and giving away belongings. The money that you could earn by selling possessions would finance the purchase of new clothes and accessories that you need. By donating what you cannot sell, you'll experience the joy of giving and the satisfaction of knowing that you helped someone less fortunate.

Finally, if your feelings prove too difficult to overcome, there is a strategy of last resort. Rather than letting indecision ruin your closet organizing results, you can decide to keep certain belongings but store them elsewhere for a trial period. That should calm your anxiety and allow you to proceed with the task at hand. You can go back to these items at a later time when you are feeling strong enough to make a rational decision.

Services and Solutions for Organizing Closet Clutter:

If you reside in Toronto or the GTA, our closet organizing services can help you to get organized. Contact Professional Organizer Andrew Neary for a free, no obligation consultation at (416) 570-8861 or e-mail Andrew@Organizing-Toronto.com.

We recommend the following books for strategies to assist you in dealing with the negative emotions that you may experience when decluttering:

Awaken the Giant Within - this self help classic by Anthony Robbins teaches you the strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions and creating positive change.

Teach Yourself Decluttering - this book will help you to identify why you cling to clutter and gives you a realistic and effective step by step action plan for decluttering your wardrobe and every room in your home.

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Clutter

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Andrew Neary
Services for Organizing Closet Clutter
http://www.Organizing-Toronto.com
100 Hayden Street, Suite 1708
Toronto, Ontario
M4Y 3C7
CANADA
(416) 570-8861
Andrew@Organizing-Toronto.com

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Dealing with Feelings of Sentimentality, Sadness, and Denial When Organizing Closet Clutter

Dealing with Feelings of Sentimentality, Sadness,
and Denial When
Organizing Closet Clutter