[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[tabaqui]

I think people get confused thinking that 'sparks joy' means they have to be wildly excited and overwhelmingly happy!happy!joy!joy! with something to say it 'sparks joy'.

If you have a literal towering heap of clothing (like a couple of the people did), that practically reaches the ceiling, some of that clothing you're going to look at and go 'why in fuck did i buy this?' and some you're going to go 'oh, yeah, this dress, the way the skirt swooshes, so fun!' . That's enough of a reaction, to me, to say it 'sparks joy'.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is how I always interpreted it. It's a pretty simple concept to me: does owning this thing make me happy? If not, and it isn't something that I need, then... why do I own it? Like, I still have a Sailor Moon doll that my best friend bought for me when we were 16. I'm not really that into Sailor Moon anymore, but it makes me happy because my friend had to look really hard to find it and so to me it's a symbol of how much she cares about me that she went to all of that trouble to get me something she knew I would like.

[tabaqui]

Exactly.

[nightscale]

Yeah, this it's how I go about cleaning out my living space every year and the 'logic', if you will, that I use to determine what to keep and what to get rid of.

Is is necessary? Do I hold sentimental attachment/positive feelings towards it?

If the answer is no in both cases then I've been donating/throwing them out, and it's really been helping cleaning up so much of my clutter. (I'm not even close to the level that hoarders are, but I do hold onto things that I literally don't use or have any feelings towards. I need little gentle kicks up the butt to actually de-clutter my space so that I don't end up as someone with a towering pile of clothes I never wear).

I'm still going to be that lady with a shit-ton of books, but those give me pleasure to own and have on my shelves, I care about them, hence they'll stay(but neatly ordered and not in stacks on the floor like they were). And de-cluttering my knick-knacks and clothes has helped to free up that space.

[tabaqui]

Yup. I tend to hold on to a lot of things for sentimental reasons, but even those things i make myself deal with every few years; i only need so many pretty plates that were wedding gifts to my grandmother if i *never use them* (too pretty!!)

Books, though, yeah - i've got a ton, 99 percent of them are never gonna go away. I have zero issues getting rid of clothes, though i hate shopping, too, so i can't get *too* crazy, or i won't have anything at all, heh.

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I've been doing it too. If I haven't worn/used/touched/looked at it in the past year and it isn't something I have a need for (like fancy clothes - I almost never wear them but everyone needs some fancy clothes for special occasions) or have a personal attachment to, then out it goes. It's a good way to keep stuff from accumulating, because the longer you tell yourself "well, maybe I'll use it someday," the harder it then becomes to get rid of it.

[rosehiptea]

I don't have too much junk but I'd like to have even less. But I keep thinking "Well I'd have to take those florescent bulbs to a special place, and I can't just throw that old laptop in the dumpster, so I'd have to take it to a different special place" and my brain gets derailed and I don't go through the drawer after all.