Gretchen Rubin Quotes

My partner and I weed through our bookshelves and throw stuff out regularly.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

De-cluttering can be overwhelming, so start with that one small thing. Clean out your junk drawers. It can lead to so many more beautiful things. Start there, and you'll find yourself cleaning the whole rest of the house.

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

I like getting rid of things. I really do.

I'm the absolute opposite of a hoarder.

I love cleaning and hanging things up!

There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.

I'm gradually getting rid of all the things I don't need.

People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'