KISS #177- The Image Decluttering Painted Me To Be

Decluttering is actually my daily thing and over the years of staying alone, it has brought me the appearance of been looked at as someone who doesn't want roughness or unnecessary things in her space and to people who can't seem to adhere to my kind of tidiness, they had the sight of looking at me like I was being too much.

Though it may be kind of difficult ensuring that decluttering takes place in a space that has 2 or more people in it because it will be hard enforcing what you believe in on others without being seen as an overdo. I've had issues with a particular roommate due to the fact that she probably doesn't count cleaning important let alone decluttering and would always keep unnecessary things or rearrange the flat anyhow and I can't seem to overlook it when you pick something from here and you're dropping it at another spot after several attempts of fixing it and letting you know that it isn't proper but still you kept on repeating it.

We would want to keep the perfume containers even when we've used them up or keep some products plastics so we can be able to search and see the exact product in store or market. My strategy for decluttering in this case was to propose snapping the product on our phones as softcopy to search wherever we want to get it from rather than keeping bottles or containers around, taking up space where other necessary things would have taken.

I expect to see my space neat by ensuring that everything is at its space and even if you're not helping out in having a neat space, I don't expect you to cause me more avenue for cleaning.

There was a time I was working in Ibadan and the first apartment I got in a rush of settling down was a Boys quarters room. With the way I arrange my stuffs and ensure that everything is at their rightful space, cleaning up the whole room every day before going to work and after returning from work and ensuring I'm not harbouring anything I'm not longer in need of, makes it look like I rented a room self contained or flat apartment because you would always meet it tidied up and visiting a friend who had rented a room self contained, I was thinking that if only I was the one having that spacious apartment then it would have looked nicely and when she came to my place as well, she said and I quote

Even you that rented just a room have a nicer room view than I who rented a self con

That is the result of decluttering and having things in order.

Take for instance, we had some products at my workplace back then that were about to get expired and with proper notification, nothing was done until they eventually got expired.
To me, the next thing to do was to dispose them even though it was a loss of money but at that point there was nothing to be done anymore because we won't dare sell expired products to nursing mothers but the order we received was to pack them in the store.
Store that was already occupied with goods and adding expiry products would make it look worse than it was.

Decluttering makes me feel the beauty of my space no matter how small it is. Its result makes me feel I have it big like those who have it big because the neatness of my space shows how well I have diligently put things in order.

I will be dropping my pen here on the Minimalist community prompt on Decluttering.

Thanks for reading through 🤗

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