Audiobook: Tidy the f*ck up. The American art of organising your sh*t, Messie Condo

Hi, my name is Regine le Roux and I am messy. 

I sometimes feel like the Peanuts character, Pig-Pen, he doesn't do anything and still manages to become dirty. I feel like that about my clutter. I take ages to sort a space out, promise myself to keep it that way, and before I know it, I’m surrounded by clutter again.

 

I’m currently in a massive spring clean phase. This audiobook has some good tips. There is a lot of swearing, which is to be expected by the title, but it does get a bit much. I am also not a fan of the narrators condescending tone. 

But, here are a few good tips:

Books: Don’t hang on to books that you know you are never going to read again. If you are not willing to take it with you to a desert island for company, don’t keep it. 

Clothing: When you clear out, you normally have a couple of piles of clothes: keep / donate / throw out / not sure… For the ‘not sure’ pile, look at the items and ask yourself whether you would pay $40 (+R720) for a new similar garment. If the answer is no, then you’ve just bought it because it was most likely a charity shop buy / bargain, so get rid of it.

 

Stop buying stuff.  You regret the things that you buy, much more than the things that you don’t buy (just look at all the stuff that you throw out when you declutter). 

Clear things out for better things to take its place. 

Clean up stuff the night before you go to bed, just in case you get an unexpected visitor; you don’t want them to walk into a mess or trip over your clutter. 

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