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3 common problems...

...most people run into when trying to determine usefulness of an item:

  • Exaggerating or over-emphasizing its need in the future.
  • Underestimating the cost and space it takes up.
  • Ignoring the storage cost.

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Over 300,000 items...

...is  the number of items in the average American home.

That’s true even though 1 in 10 Americans (and rising) rent offsite storage and even though the size of the American house has tripled in the past 50 years.

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The RFASR Declutter Formula

  • Recency — “When was the last time I used this?”
  • Frequency — “How often do I use this?”
  • Acquisition Cost — “How difficult/expensive is it to get this?”
  • Storage Cost — “How much space and maintenance cost is it tied to?”
  • Retrieve C...

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When you get rid of something...

... all that happens is that you'll have to buy or borrow the item, if you ever wanted/needed it. That's it.

There might be some costs to that, but the costs of keeping that item exist too: it might cost you to root through to find what you need, stress and guilt when you see ...

Misunderstanding past progress

Future progress is underrated because past progress is misunderstood.

  • There are times when optimism is so great and so broad that we become blind to future risks
  • People tend to be optimistic about their own future but pessimistic about other...

Psychological Reasons for Misjudgments

  • Underestimating the power of rewards and punishment
  • Valuing the present more highly than the future.
  • Over-influence by vivid or the most recent information.
  • Constructing explanations that fit an outcome.

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