Clutter and disorganization contribute to high stress, low productivity, distraction, poor sleep, frustration, conflict, and depression. According to Dr. Sherrie Bourg Carter, author of The High Octane Woman (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/high-octane-women) blog for www.psychologytoday.com:
Further evidence that clutter challenges our ability to by happy and successful comes from a study by UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives and Families. CELF discovered the following facts when they studied 32 California families and the thousands of objects in their homes. It turns out that clutter has a profound affect on our mood and self-esteem. CELF’s anthropologists, social scientists, and archaeologists found:
Reducing clutter can bring up emotions as objects from one's life and home are assessed. Kim's background in education and human resources usually comes to the rescue here. Kim works with clients to face and appreciate the emotion that an item triggers. Above all, Kim is a good listener and is sensitive to clients' stories and object connections.
Yes, the initial de-cluttering and reduction stage can be difficult, but once the process gets rolling, it gets easier and typically provides a great sense of freedom and opportunity. Many clients describe it as "feeling like the weight of the world is off my shoulders" and "feeling like I just lost 50 pounds!"
We also use our expertise to help those who are downsizing and preparing to move, those who are packing/unpacking for relocation, families that are sorting through the possessions of a loved one, and those who want to clean out of their self-storage units and save money.
ReSolve Home Organizing & Styling promises compassion and confidentiality.
- Clutter bombards our minds with excessive stimuli (visual, olfactory, tactile), causing our senses to work overtime on stimuli that are not necessary or important.
- Clutter distracts us by drawing our attention away from what our focus should be on.
- Clutter makes it more difficult to relax, both physically and mentally.
- Clutter constantly signals to our brains that our work is never done.
- Clutter makes us anxious because we're never sure what it's going to take to get through to the bottom of the pile.
- Clutter creates feelings of guilt ("I should be more organized") and embarrassment, especially when others unexpectedly drop by our homes or work spaces.
- Clutter inhibits creativity and productivity by invading the open spaces that allow most people to think, brain storm, and problem solve.
- Clutter frustrates us by preventing us from locating what we need quickly (e.g. files and paperwork lost in the "pile" or keys swallowed up by the clutter).
Further evidence that clutter challenges our ability to by happy and successful comes from a study by UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives and Families. CELF discovered the following facts when they studied 32 California families and the thousands of objects in their homes. It turns out that clutter has a profound affect on our mood and self-esteem. CELF’s anthropologists, social scientists, and archaeologists found:
- A link between high cortisol (stress hormone) levels in female home owners and a high density of household objects.The more stuff, the more stress women feel. Men, on the other hand, don’t seem bothered by mess, which accounts for tensions between tidy wives and their clutter bug hubbies.
- Women associate a tidy home with a happy and successful family. The more dishes that pile up in the sink, the more anxious women feel.
- Even families that want to reduce clutter often are emotionally paralyzed when it comes to sorting and pitching objects. They either can’t break sentimental attachments to objects or believe their things have hidden monetary value.
- Although U.S. consumers bear only 3% of the world’s children, we buy 40% of the world’s toys. And these toys live in every room, fighting for display space with kids’ trophies, artwork, and snapshots of their last soccer game.
Reducing clutter can bring up emotions as objects from one's life and home are assessed. Kim's background in education and human resources usually comes to the rescue here. Kim works with clients to face and appreciate the emotion that an item triggers. Above all, Kim is a good listener and is sensitive to clients' stories and object connections.
Yes, the initial de-cluttering and reduction stage can be difficult, but once the process gets rolling, it gets easier and typically provides a great sense of freedom and opportunity. Many clients describe it as "feeling like the weight of the world is off my shoulders" and "feeling like I just lost 50 pounds!"
We also use our expertise to help those who are downsizing and preparing to move, those who are packing/unpacking for relocation, families that are sorting through the possessions of a loved one, and those who want to clean out of their self-storage units and save money.
ReSolve Home Organizing & Styling promises compassion and confidentiality.
