Sucking moving Since leaving college more than a decade ago, I lived only in apartments, so I was good to stay small and first, during and after managing my list of goods.
A lot that is possible is that I really like the decline. But it did not come naturally – this is a skill that I had to practice, learn and sometimes fail. So I felt that I could share my experiences here, if you find it useful for the current or future step.
When my wife (then girlfriend) and I decided to downsize from a-bedroom apartment, I liked the discipling. We loved a bedroom for several reasons, including the view of Seattle’s space needle. But finally, we realized that we can take the risk of living in a more moving part of the city if we can squeeze into a studio.
This meant that we brought to each apartment with the amount of luggage. Our move in a bedroom apartment was two people who were filling their different lives in one. Our step in a studio meant that we really had to decide what would jump in the next stage of our life. This was an emotional thing.
We really decided for a while before packing things. It was right when Mary Kondo’s Life -changing magic Was blowing, and when I know that the book (and discourse around it) has become something of a meme, it was very advised that we were found very useful at that time and then used for all our tricks.
Yes, Kondo has a concept of keeping things that are “spark joy” vague, unscientific and disable. But if you are facing mountains of cloth or piles of books, which you know that you have to sort to make a place in your new place, then it is a great structure that you can use to start chipping on those piles. With every decline I have done, I have found that it is the most difficult part to start, but once you roll the ball, it becomes very easy.
I have found that I am the most successful when I start with things that I really do not care. Moving forward is already stressful, so dive into an overflow first but the favorite collection of gadgets is not the best strategy for me. Usually, I have to trim through clothes where I start – I keep my wardrobe very basic and I don’t buy a lot of clothes, so I am not super precious about them. I later save gadgets and games (I work RuckusAfter all).
One more thing I have learned: Once you decide what to get out of your house, you still have to find a place for that stuff. This can be its own source of frustration, especially if you are less on time before a big step. We have an article that if you want some ideas, how to get rid of the goods you declared.
But once you roll on decluring, it may look great. I get a lot of satisfaction in sorting through the luggage, which I don’t need, and to complete the place to get it out of the house. I like it so much that I really learned – difficult ways – that you can take things far away.
My biggest regret is that, beyond that step, I threw many books, while they did not actively “spark joy”, I had an emotional value. I do a lot to read all my reading on an e-reader, so I felt that, to save space (and my back), I can get rid of every book that I have. It included my high school year books, which I justified because I had never seen them and because they were just sitting under a box in my closet. But now that I have a child, I want me to have those books of year somewhere so that I can show them to my child when they grow up.
I should not have declared my old, torn copies Harry Potter I grew up in the series. Similarly, they made a place and I was not actively reading them, and while tossing them was a difficult option, I felt that it was time for me to move forward. But now what we know about JK Rowling, despite this, I still have good memories of those books, such as sucking in Quidich World Cup for a thousandth time or waiting for the midnight book with friends. I wish I could pick them up and flip them again through them.
I have also been very enthusiastic about reducing old hardware and game console. Certainly, I was not playing my nintendo 3DS too much, but now I really want me to have it so that I could play some games that I had collected.
I have found that, in general, I do not miss the vast majority of things that I have got rid of
Even if I regret something, I have found that, in general, I do not miss the vast majority of things I have got rid of. And for the first time, building the declining muscles of those people helped us a lot with steps later. When we moved from Seattle to Portland, we chose a studio again to get cheaper fare, and we were able to do so because we did not have a bunch of luggage. This also meant that we could put everything that we could put in one of the small U-halls, which made the cross-state trick less painful, as it could be.
We are no longer in a studio. We eventually went into a two-bedroom Kondo because we knew that we wanted to start a family, and we realized that a studio could be a bit tight for two adults and a growing child. (If you are parents who follow a family in a studio, I salute you.) In many ways, we still try to treat our big space as if it is a studio, even with our new “roommate”, which requires A. Very Of gear. When you are dealing with the chaos of a child, we have become very good in keeping our property under control, especially valuable skills.
If we have to walk again at any time – and possibly, someday we will – we will expect to make the required decline with as low stress as possible. Sometimes discipling gets a bad rap, and I will never say that it is easy. But this is a skill that I am happy to learn through many tricks. I know that because I can do it, my final step will be a little easier.
