整理您的空间可能是超级舒缓的，并且完全是对一般ennui或压力的建议解毒剂。Whenever I’m feeling anxious, wondering what the purpose of life really is, or just finding myself staring at a blank Google doc screen praying a good sentence or two will finally materialize, I stop whatever it is I’m trying to accomplish and clean an area of my house. Even if it’s just making sure my bedside table is tidy and neat, or that my office desk isn’t overflowing with random crumpled papers or litter the cat left behind (gross, I know), it almost always helps refresh my headspace.
In a perfect world, I’d dedicated an hour each week to decluttering parts of my house so that by the end of the month, my work (and life) space (which are one and the same now) doesn’t seem so, well, cluttered. But, I have a confession to make: That doesn’t always happen. Even though once I’m in the process of cleaning and organizing, I instantly feel lighter, the想法任务是瘫痪的。有。只是。所以。很多。东西。
以下是一些令人整理的挑战，一开始总是让人感到不知所措 - 但是一旦终于解决了它们，感觉就像我震惊了数千磅的恐慌和忧虑，并留下了一个我真正喜欢并想生活的空间。
1.取一个咖啡杯清单。
我喜欢咖啡杯。如果我能在整个厨房里用咖啡杯填充，我会的。但是，由于它们几乎只有一些特定的目的（拿着含咖啡因的饮料，冰淇淋勺，有时甚至是酒），因此他们会得到一个专用的橱柜。这意味着每隔几年我就必须浏览杯子，然后用薯条或裂缝扔掉任何东西。有一天，当我有钱将几个橱柜献给杯子时，我不必选择。但是由于今天不是那天，我需要刷新我的收藏，然后扔掉（或捐赠）我再也无法坚持的东西了。（Mickey Mouse杯子，带有破碎的手柄，我尝试过用超级胶修复失败，我会想念您的。）
2.进行壁橱清洁。
Not that this problem applies now, since we rarely have to assemble real outfits anymore, but in general I know I don’t wear a good 60 percent of the clothes I own, which is kind of shameful, and I’ve been working on being more mindful when I shop for the last couple years. Maybe a silver lining to living through a global pandemic is that I can finally, truly start those good shopping habits (since I don’t shop anymore at all!). At least once a year, I’ll gather all the clothes and shoes and donate what I haven’t worn in over a year, but it’s an emotional process. And who’s to say three months from now I won’t suddenly re-love the My Little Pony blouse I bought when I was 23? Okay, maybe I’ll keep that one.
3.整理您已经ho积了四个月的邮件。
我不知道为什么，但是我避免扔掉我的邮件，即使这只是Bed Bath＆Beyond的优惠券，我知道我不会使用。Old bills I’ve already paid, bills I know I already get electronically sent to me, mail that was sent to the person who previously lived at my house, and random promotional material just end up collecting dust in a drawer that eventually gets so clogged with envelopes I’m forced to just deal with it. And that day is a very bad day.
4.扔掉旧的，过期的成分。
For some reason, I kept buying bags of shredded coconut when I already had shredded coconut (for Chrissy Teigen’s banana bread recipe, obvs), so now I have three bags of shredded coconut, and I just don’t use coconut that often in my food! It’s tough because a lot of baking ingredients don’t go bad for a long time (like chocolate, cocoa powder, vanilla, etc.) so they keep adding up. I’m still working on a system because I refuse to throw away good food, so please email me if you feel like receiving a few loaves of Chrissy’s banana bread.
5.最终在您家中整理您所有垃圾的地方。
Since this was my and my husband’s first-ever garage, we went storage-crazy when we first moved in, throwing all of our moving boxes, random pieces of furniture, old bags of clothes we needed to donate to Goodwill — the piles layered like ratatouille of junk. Just looking at all the crap that accumulated gave me heart palpitations, so my husband did us a solid and organized it himself awhile back, and now my garage makes me SO HAPPY.
6.做一堆捐赠书。
我讨厌放弃书籍，但我也没有其他书架的空间，所以至少每年我已经读过我已经读过的书，不会错过并打包它们以进行善意。由于多年来我获得了很多免费书籍以进行报道，因此新书确实非常迅速。我实际上最近屈服并给自己买了一个Kindle，以便我可以开始阅读数字副本以节省空间（和金钱），但是如果有人想开始一个寄给书籍和接收的社区，请告诉我。我很幸运能得到我非常迅速地耕种的新书的高级副本，但是由于缺乏存储空间，它们最终只是在我家中的随机位置堆叠。
7.摆脱实际上可能已过期的旧护肤产品。
即使我心爱的Dior睫毛膏大约两岁，我也感到内gui，因为它很昂贵，而且可能还剩下十或十二个使用者（即使我最终在此过程中给了自己的眼睛感染）。尤其是因为我每月只能化妆一次，所以我发现我的地基和遮瑕膏开始闻起来很奇怪，并且口红正在变干。为此，我没有好的解决方案，因为把它们扔掉感觉就像是浪费 - 但是让它们意味着使用宝贵的房地产。现在，您的化妆品和护肤产品都在做什么？
8.组织您的重要文件。
我可以自豪地说，就在最近，我购买了一些符合税收文件，自由职业和咨询合同，我的结婚证以及重要账单的颜色编码文件夹，我可能需要在某个时候参考。在此之前，我只是把论文塞进了抽屉里，并希望获得最好的。这是行不通的，因为一旦您需要文档，您就不会找到它，直到您清空整个抽屉并浏览每张纸，并且可能在此过程中抽泣。
9.扔掉过期的药物。
我想我至少有四瓶Dayquil到了这一点上发酵的，如果我食用它，可能会浪费我（冷药发酵吗？提醒我Google），还有几盒Gas-X可能具有效力一根甜食。这是我的另一项任务，在待办事项清单上，因为每当我生病时，我总是去药房并购买更多药物。他们最终与坏药物相同，增加了无休止的收藏。
10.无情地排序纪念品与垃圾。
我是我旧工作或参加婚礼的旧照片和小饰品的吸盘。I still have a holiday card the HelloGiggles team sent back when I was just a contributor, and a beer cozy from my best friend’s wedding back in 2015. I won’t give those things up because they’re markers of important times of my life. But just because I don’t want to toss a pile of memories into the trash doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be organized. I recently bought a scrapbook and a couple of bins to store things and tuck them away so that I can go back to them whenever I want (plus, they’re all in one place, so in case of an emergency I can easily go grab them).
如您所见，我的整理旅程正在进行中。但是，我要说的是，最重要的一步是认识到您家中的问题区域，并开始一一挑战它们。但是，给自己可行的截止日期，使整理的感觉良好。因为真的应该。
Gina Vaynshteyn是住在洛杉矶的编辑和作家。您可以在精炼厂29，公寓疗法，Hellogiggles，分散注意力等方面找到更多的话。如果您想，您可以跟随她Instagram要么推特。
（本文最初发表于2020年8月，此后已更新）
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