Decluttering Quotes

“You can always hope and wait for someone to want something in your home, but you cannot wait forever, and sometimes you must just give cherished things away with the wish that they end up with someone who will create new memories of their own.”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

“Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.”
― Geralin Thomas, Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets

“Mess is an unnecessary source of irritation.”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

“Our habit to accumulate and to cling to clutter is often representative of practices we've adopted to protect or sooth ourselves.”
― Mary Vraa, PopUpPurge(TM) Release Midlife Clutter & Reclaim Inner Clarity

“We don't realize how excess stuff draws on our energy until it's removed.”
― Mary Vraa, PopUpPurge(TM) Release Midlife Clutter & Reclaim Inner Clarity

“Approach the spaces in your home this way:
First, your living room and family room.
Second, your own bedroom and the other bedrooms in the house.
Third, all the clothes closets.
Fourth, your home's bathrooms and the laundry room.
Fifth, your kitchen and dining areas.
Sixth, your home office.
Seventh, your storage areas, including your toy room and craft work spaces.
Eighth, your garage and yard.
...this represents the easier-to-harder progression.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“Everything you own also owns you. Picture an invisible string between yourself and every item you own. Each of these strings uses some amount of mental and emotional energy to manage the relationship between you and each item. The right amount of stuff can feel grounding and helpful, but too much stuff can feel like a tangled web. The less stuff you own, the less energy you expend.”
― Solstice, The Earth Spirit Hearth and Home

“Sometimes when we're feeling stuck in a rut, we can get clear by physically decluttering our homes. Getting rid of objects that hold past hurtful memories to them and moving out the things that takes up too much space for no reason.”
― Robin S. Baker

“When you can identify the behaviors that led to too much in your home, you can begin protecting the space between your things.”
― Mary Vraa, PopUpPurge(TM) Release Midlife Clutter & Reclaim Inner Clarity

“Sometimes, we figure out our next move when we release what it won't be.”
― Mary Vraa, PopUpPurge(TM) Release Midlife Clutter & Reclaim Inner Clarity

“Another thing we must recognize about clutter is that it's active. Even if it's just sitting there on a shelf or buried in a box, clutter is actively working in our lives.”
― Kathi Lipp, Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space

“[Clutter] brings up bad memories. There are little emotional grenades in all of your piles, and every time you sort through one, you uncover something you "should have" done.”
― Kathi Lipp, Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space

“Why do I have to be prepared for every possibility?...

It's just fear.

Fear that I won't have enough. Fear that I will be stuck without something and not know what to do.”
― Kathi Lipp, Clutter Free: Quick and Easy Steps to Simplifying Your Space

“Eliminating clutter makes the burden of daily life feel lighter...”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

“Minimalist clothing can convey a classic and memorable sense of personal identity.
Alice argues that wearing a similar outfit every day is a way of asserting your status as a protagonist in life. "This is the reason why characters in picture books never change their clothes...”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“Learning the mechanism of healing and realizing the role of contrast and diversity within and around us will give us the push we need to partake in healing. The obstacles we may encounter and the inevitable mistakes naturally serve as precious components of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual maturity.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Embarking on our path as a courageous soul will remind us that ultimately it does not matter how well we live, or the best way to avoid errors in our lifestyle decisions. Beginning will positively change our daily routines and habits, but the surface level changes are only a meager reward compared to the spiritual lessons along the way.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“We simply have to be guided back to the role of being a cooperative component of healing instead of an unconscious or passive healer.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Express your appreciation to every item that supported you during the day.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying / Joy at Work

“...this process we're going through is not about trying to create a home where things are perfect; it's about creating a home where things are lighter.”
― Allie Casazza, Declutter Like a Mother: A Guilt-Free, No-Stress Way to Transform Your Home and Your Life

“I know what it’s like to look at a mountainous discard pile
and wish a DeLorean would transport me back to better
choices, but we can only go forward. The wasted time and
money are gone.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“Touching unnoticed objects reactivates your sense of
ownership. Reactivating ownership makes it harder to let go.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“No one has an orderly home all the time, and unless you hire
a maid to clean and tidy constantly, families with kids won’t
always have tidy homes. Sometimes kids have bad days, a
family emergency occurs, or your child needs you to play
with them. These are all great reasons to leave the house to
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entropy and focus on your family”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“I wish schools taught the benefits of owning less in home
economics class. My generation learned that cleaning and
organizing would fix our stuff problem, but that won’t help
when you own too much. Hopefully, we can teach our kids
the joy of having less and not hand down the desire for more,
more, MORE to yet another generation.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“We can’t wear
more than one coat at a time. Why do we own thirty coats
for five people?’’ Mulling it over, I concluded, “My house isn’t
too small. It’s my excess stuff that made it shrink.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“Decluttering your space helps declutter your mind.”
― D. Dhyani (Author of "The Unstuck" series)")

“The key is to make the change so sudden that you experience a complete change of heart.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up / Goodbye Things / You Are a Badass / You Are a Badass at Making Money

“Decluttering isn’t about having less — it’s about making room for more peace, more clarity, and more of what truly matters.”
― Debra Polite, The 30-Day Declutter Challenge: Transform Your Space and Your Mind

“When you let go of what no longer serves you, you create space for joy, harmony, and lasting calm.”
― Debra Polite, The 30-Day Declutter Challenge: Transform Your Space and Your Mind

“If possible, try to let go of people or assets that don’t serve your needs — such as fake friends, bad partners, fancy gadgets and flashy properties. This may help you simplify your network or your possession structure — which in turn may help you eliminate many unforeseen liabilities.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond