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The story of the author, a resident of a rather seriously messy room, who was dumped by her boyfriend who suddenly visited and saw her room, to a seemingly normal situation.
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In the sequel [What you need quickly! Organizational skills to get what you need out of the way!
- I wrote “sequel” from the reader’s perspective, but this is Bungeishunju and that is Media Factory, so it’s unclear what the relationship is.
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Bad pattern of buying storage thinking, “The clutter is because we don’t have proper storage.”
How to improve from a fairly serious state of disrepair. The style is not to clean up in the short term but to clean up gradually over time.
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1: Build a base
- First, bulldoze piles of stuff on the floor to create a tidy space (desk, etc.).
- Keep this place tidy.
- Place important items and other items unearthed during the cleanup here (Step 3).
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2: Clean up from the kitchen
- The kitchen has very few memories, documents, or other things to use your head to make decisions.
- Expired food and moldy rags must be thrown away.
- Ideal for building a successful experience of getting rid of things by throwing them away more and more.
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3: Gather daily-use items at the base
- As we go about our lives, we need things, we look for them, we happen to find them, and gradually we find things that are important to us.
- Collect these things at the base so you don’t have to search for them.
- Less time spent on daily “looking for stuff” and more time to spare.
- Leading to a success story by being tidy.
- If you simply collect, you’ll eventually be flooded with stuff.
- Inability to “keep things tidy.”
- So, introduce shelves and other items to organize them.
- This is a delayed evaluation arrangement
- Difficult to try to clean up an entire cluttered room
- Too much stuff.
- By collecting the items that are needed, the “frequently needed” items are gradually organized.
- Difficult to try to clean up an entire cluttered room
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4: Throw away what you don’t use now.
- cleaning
- Just as we poop as long as we live, our rooms will get dirty as long as we live.
- Same as going to the bathroom.
- If you don’t have access to it when you need it, you don’t have it.
- If you’re saving something for “maybe someday I’ll use it,” you need to be able to remember it when you need it.
- Keeping what you bought by mistake does not erase the mistake.
- cleaning
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5: Make a map of the room
- define a territory
- Related: Hearing of dissatisfaction with Scrapbox.
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Enemies get bigger and stronger when they stick together.
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