Did you realize understanding two things can help you fix clutter problems? And help you understand what stays and what goes?There are two categories which your home decorating items fit into.
These two categories are very important because they distinguish what is vital and what is not.
All of
items in your home fall under one of these categories.
The two categories are:
Necessity - an item that you cannot function well without; something that is necessary and vital to your well being and day to day living.
Accessory - an item that is optional, that you can function sufficiently without; something that is NOT vital to your day to day living or well being.
Being able to distinguish between which function each item in each room in your home serves can quickly show you how much or how little you overindulge.
Consider your bed. Do you think it's vital to your day to day living?
Yes it is!
Without a bed you would be sleeping on floor. Granted, you could exist like this but result of sleeping on floor for a long duration of time could result in physical problems.
Like back pains, sluggishness, etc.
Things like back pains then affect how much or how little you contribute to important things in your life from one day to next.
Necessities can be further examined and what you come up with when you look close enough is revelation that necessities greatly affect your capabilities.
They tie into how much or how little you achieve.
Food is a necessity. If you don't eat you begin to starve. Water is a necessity. If you don't drink you begin to dehydrate.
Although these two things are not home furnishings, you can see how they affect you.
They affect your survival.
Living without some necessities would not necessarily affect you physically.
Other necessities are vital with understanding that they are hard to function without. They make life more difficult if you don't have them around.
They do NOT affect you physically but mentally.
(Yet sometimes things that do affect you mentally can turn into physical problems.)
For instance, a dresser.
You can easily see that a dresser does NOT affect you physically.
But to live without a dresser or something that served as a dresser-type organizer would be time consuming and difficult for you.
You would have no place to put certain clothing items and your only option would be to lay them about in a disorganized fashion.
In time this would become a space-interference.
And it would likely begin to affect you mentally.
