How "Would I Unpack This?" Changes Decluttering Forever (Ep 325)
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Deanna Yates discusses how the mindset shift during moving can revolutionize the decluttering process.
You will get rid of more in two weeks of packing than in five years of living in the same house. Not because you tried harder. Because the rules changed. Deanna Yates has moved 16 times as an adult, and number 17 is happening right now, unplanned and unwanted. In this episode she breaks down exactly what moving does to your brain, and how to steal that effect without touching a single roll of packing tape. On a normal day, everything you own is already in your home. Every item has a spot. So when you try to declutter, each thing has to argue its way OUT, and if you cannot find a good reason, it stays. That is why decluttering feels like a fight. It is why so many decisions end with "well, I have room for it." When you move, everything comes out. And now every item has to argue its way back IN. Same stuff. Same you. Opposite default. Deanna hands you the one question that flips it: Would I unpack this? In this episode: The real reason moving makes you ruthless (it is not motivation) Why "I have room for it" is the sentence that kills most decluttering sessions How to use the unpack question on your kid's artwork without feeling like a bad mom What that box you never opened from…
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