Day 2: Touch Every Toy

It is Day 2 of Ohdeedoh's Toy Cure. How is it going? Are you following the plan and weeding out toys in your house?

I just love the comments about the psychology of the Outbox that they talk about:

Here's another excerpt from the Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure book which describes the psychology of the Outbox:

Most clutter clearers will tell you to sort through your belongings and remove a certain amount to the garbage, to recycling, or to a giveaway pile. This is a first-generation clutter-clearing approach. It focuses mainly on identifying clutter that will immediately be taken away. The problem with first-generation thinking is that it doesn't take into account that there are two problems: how to sort out the clutter and how to detach from individual items. Separation anxiety is the far bigger problem.

When faced with two anxiety-provoking decisions - where something should go (its value to the world) and whether one can separate from it (its value to the owner) - most people get stuck and simply hold on to things as a default. Second-generation clutter management unhitches these two stressful decisions. It deals with separation first and decides how and where to get clutter out of your apartment later.