This holiday season, you might have the urge to get rid of everything you’ve ever owned. Clutter is the enemy, you might think, and having anything around that doesn’t work for a specific purpose is just in the way.
But that might not be the right way of approaching clutter in your home.
“Be careful what you purge," journalist Rob Walker wrote in the New York Times op-ed, 'Clutter is Good for You.' «Today’s decluttering victim is tomorrow’s lost object, and lost objects are forever,”
Walker also co-wrote “Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter.” “That’s why I’m keeping my embarrassing ceramic leprechaun. I’m learning to appreciate it. It holds a connection for me — to my mother and to all her best intentions and instincts — that I never want to lose.”
According to Walker, the rise of minimalism and the urge to purge became particularly mainstream in the wake of Marie Kondo’s advice to get rid of everything that doesn’t spark joy or have a specific use. Instead, Walker encourages us to really work on keeping everything that might have a story, a sentimental connection to our lives, or, of course, items that spark joy.
Recluttering, as the trend is called, is making the rounds across social media and among home decor enthusiasts. It’s all about learning to love your stuff rather than constantly focusing on decluttering and organizing. As Apartment Therapy reported, “recluttering is a celebration of your stuff.”
There are plenty of ways you can ditch the decluttering and achieve the recluttering lifestyle. One new reclutterer is learning to love all of the things she already owns and, when she decides to shop a bit, she works under the guide of three rules: don’t buy anything on a whim,
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