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How to Get Rid Of Clutter In Your
Home?
By Kirti Poreddy
move on and start the de-cluttering
As time passes, the table in our
process that I’ve been procrastinating
room that once held a single vase is for the past few years.
now forced to carry the weight of So how exactly does one sort through
uncountable boxes, souvenirs, years of a mess? The process to get
candles, toys, and maybe even those rid of clutter is simple yet effective
gifts our friendly neighbour gave us and here it is how it went for me.
for Diwali. Naturally, our rooms, our
homes, hold a perpetual amount of I picked up the dusty lamp that sat
clutter that we often do not know alone on the crooked and almost
how to deal with. ragged Oakwood table. When was
the last time I had used this lamp?
When was the last time I had held this
object and switched it on? And for a
broader perspective, when was the
last time my object had its purpose
being served? My lamp had sat in the
very same position for about the last 4
years. However, when I came to think
about it, I realised that I did use this
lamp for numerous events, like for
dinner parties, get-togethers, birthday
parties, movie nights and even a few
late-night cooking sessions. So,
During this pandemic of COVID-19, perhaps this lamp did have a few
a lot of us do have more time to sort memorable days, but does that mean I
through our shelves, cupboards and shouldn’t get rid of it?
drawers and to explore objects that I moved on to the next question, and
have been ‘mysteriously’ living there. I asked myself, “Does it serve more
I, for one, definitely do not even than a single purpose?” Considering
remember owning half of the things I my object as a simple lamp, the
found yesterday, which were a vast answer to the above question is a
variety of articles that ranged from certain no as it did not serve more
Christmas scarves to something that than one purpose. As this question
looked like a chewed-up ball. Either asks if any object has more than one
way, I decided that it was time to purpose, it can perhaps be given
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