The best predictor of whether you will need an item is whether you are using it or used it recently

Summary

• The best predictor of whether you will need an item is whether you are using it or used it recently

Details

• If you havent used it recently, and you wont use it in the next month, think seriously about getting rid of it.

References

• Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff - Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life - Matt Paxton

Quotes

Here’s what I always recommend: If you know you’ll use it within one month, keep it. Not six months, one year, or two years. One month. If you won’t use it within one month, the odds are you won’t use it at all. And the best predictor of whether you’ll need an item is whether you are currently using it or have recently used it. Not whether you think that, one day, somehow, somewhere, you’ll use it. Because that day, in all likelihood, will never come.

Related

• Minimalism
• Minimalism gives us space to see farther
• Minimalism helps us be more efficient at our work
• Minimalist means clearing out what is not important so we have space to focus on what is.
• Don't buy more stuff to organize existing stuff