My guess, though, is that your struggle with clutter goes a lot deeper than the surface of every table top in your home.Ĭlutter and discouragement very often go hand in hand. Or maybe you’re too busy to bother with decluttering.
Sometimes the problem is you just have too much stuff. The first two sets of photos are of the same room in our house – the mudroom by the back door and breakfast area (far right photos).Ĭlutter contributes so much stress to home life. Here’s just a few pictures from the accumulated clutter problem. I’ll have to share a complete before and after post of our house one of these days.
Here’s some pretty embarrassing before (and after) pictures. He’s finally realizing our home is more peaceful when there’s empty space. We argued over clutter a lot.Īnd the truth is, he still struggles from time to time but there’s been such an improvement. Really hard.Īnd after 20 years of marriage, there was just so much stuff. My husband has a really hard time letting things go. I feel like we’re almost to the point where we don’t have extra clutter now. Instead, star / flag anything useful that you need to deal with and treat your flagged messages as your real - and much more manageable - inbox).We struggled with clutter in my house for many years. (Alternatively, don’t delete mail at all! If you receive a lot of messages, regularly deleting email can become a time consuming and tedious task.
If your mail app doesn’t permit grouping by sender, then the next best approach is to sort by sender, and select emails to delete or move. Grouping (and deleting) by sender is easily done in Outlook and Thunderbird less so in Mac Mail and Google Workspace (and in most mobile apps). Doing this allows you to get a quick summary of everybody who’s currently occupying your inbox, and to bulk delete or archive multiple emails from particular senders in one go. The easiest way to get rid of email is to group everything by sender. So, the holy grail when it comes to emails is to have as little of them stagnating in your inbox as possible. Let’s face it: emails are the bane of most people’s existence.Īll they do is create a glorified to-do list that actively gets in the way of getting anything useful done.
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