10 THINGS TO CONSIDER

WITH INHERITED CLUTTER

1. Excess / impulse gift-wrapping paper and card shopping

To prevent this happening, make sure you write a gift list of what you’re going to send to whom, i.e. what you NEED and will USE, and stick to it.

2. Excess / impulse gift shopping

To prevent this happening, make sure you write a gift list and stick to it. To avoid it completely, choose to give only experience type gifts that are not physical.

3. Excess / impulse food / drinks shopping

To prevent this happening, make sure you write your food plan and stick to it, and do the shopping challenge to ensure you don’t over buy things.

4. Excess / impulse clothes shopping

To prevent this happening, make sure you do your weekly planners, decide what clothes you want to wear for each event / activity, and then go shopping in your wardrobe / clothes FIRST. Only buy or replace (by letting go) what you NEED.

5. Excess debt to pay for the gifts / food / clothes

To prevent this happening, make sure you write a gift list and include a budget for each person that includes posting / mailing / shipping and stick to it.

6. Unwanted physical gifts that you know you don’t want, don’t need, and won’t use

To prevent this happening, let people know what you do want (ideally a non-physical gift) at the start of November. If it does happen, let it go to a charity shop by the end of the first week of the New Year to ensure it doesn’t turn into a Clutter Magnet.

7. Excess digital clutter – photos, videos

To prevent this happening, turn this into a New Year craft project, either on your own or with those you spent time with at Christmas either in-person or virtually. Get together and share your photos, videos and stories. If in-person, set up a mobile / cell phone video in the room and simply record the sharing of photos and stories of Christmas. This is easier to do on zoom / teams because you can screenshare the photos and videos while recording the stories people share. Alternatively, you could create a photobook with all the photos – perhaps ask others for their photos so you can include them too. You can add headlines to trigger the memories and stories.

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