{"id":3483,"date":"2009-05-28T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2009-05-28T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:22:05","slug":"stepstounclutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/05\/28\/stepstounclutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps to Uncluttering Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"too much stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/shopping-bags.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3484\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"shopping-bags\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/shopping-bags.png\" alt=\"shopping-bags\" width=\"236\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>We were just having this conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do we have so much stuff?\u00c2\u00a0 Why did we buy half of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Is all this stuff why we feel so cluttered? After reading this article, I think I&#8217;m going to try to adopt a new plan as well.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also thinking that this weekend might be a good time to unclutter!<\/p>\n<p><em>from Simply Stated, Real Simple<\/em><strong><br \/>\nWhy Do We Buy Things We Don&#8217;t Need?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all familiar with the uncomfortable realization that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent a fair amount of money on something that we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually going to use. I decided to look around my apartment to try to figure out exactly why this happens. After all, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little surprising. Why would we go to the expense and effort to buy something that we never choose to use?<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons, but one important reason is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the expensive gym membership\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reason. Often, people pay for an expensive gym membership with the thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m paying this much to belong to a gym, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll feel like I have to go.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But then, of course, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, you might spend money on something as a way to try to nudge yourself into doing some activity. For example&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Real Simple Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/mKaj\">&lt;&lt;Read the entire Real Simple article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were just having this conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do we have so much stuff?\u00c2\u00a0 Why did we buy half of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Is all this stuff why we feel so cluttered? After reading this article, I think I&#8217;m going to try to adopt a new plan as well.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also thinking that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,233,232,234,235,236],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-health","tag-real-simple","tag-shopping","tag-simply-stated","tag-too-much-stuff","tag-uncluttering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}