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Name: Scaling Down
Rating: 4.3 (55 reviews)
Author: Judi Culbertson, Marj Decker

Judi Culbertson, Marj Decker

Living Large in a Smaller Place

4.3 (55 Bewertungen)

12 Min.

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Scaling Down by Judi Culbertson and Marj Decker is a practical guide for downsizing your home and simplifying your life. It offers advice on decluttering, organizing, and letting go of possessions, and emphasizes the benefits of living with less.

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to be happy with fewer things.

You might think that we humans have changed a lot since our early hunter-gatherer days. Indeed, hunting has gone a bit out of fashion and most of us forage in the supermarket instead of the forest. Nonetheless, we still do a great deal of gathering. We just gather different things.

Our ancestors used to gather precious berries and roots whereas we modern humans like to hoard all kinds of useless junk. Old clothes fill our wardrobes, tchotchkes crowd our shelves, and the boxes beneath our beds or in our attics are crammed with precious junk – be it stamps, baseball cards or stuffed animals.

So, perhaps it’s time to scale down and toss some of this stuff out the window.

In these blinks, you’ll learn how to part with those belongings you probably don’t need, as well as how to decide which items to keep, which to toss and which items of sentimental value to let go of.

You’ll also learn

how the Great Depression revitalized our drive to gather;
why people fear scaling down; and
why a collection of tin toys is no good.

If you want to scale down, start by creating a Scaling Down Mission Statement.

Is your closet or garage overflowing with old stuff that you refuse to throw away? Or maybe you even pay for an external storage unit if you live in a city where closet space is a luxury reserved for the lucky few!

If that sounds like you, you’re not alone. Keeping too much stuff has been an American trend ever since the Great Depression.

In the early 1930s, people ravaged by the economic recession simply couldn’t afford to throw out anything unless it served absolutely no purpose.

But, of course, old habits die hard and mentalities are naturally inherited from generation to generation. So, even when conditions improved, the mindset of keeping anything that might be even slightly useful, whether now or in the future, was passed on to the next generation.

As a consequence, we’ve accumulated a lot of stuff, and what was once considered prudent thriftiness now looks more like out-of-touch greed.

So you own seven sets of china and an entire wall of sneakers. That’s not unreasonable, right?

Yeah, right. If you’ve realized that this hoarding mentality is ridiculous and wasteful, you’ve jumped one hurdle. But the next thing is actually to get rid of the excess, a process that can be a bit overwhelming – after all, there’s just so much stuff!

To help yourself out, try creating a Scaling Down Mission Statement (SDMS).

An SDMS articulates the motivation behind why you want to scale down. A sample SDMS might be something like, “My great aunt is moving into assisted living with less space, so I want to help her sort out the important belongings she’ll take with her.”

If you’re struggling to put your goal into a clear one-liner like that, try jotting down just a few keywords. Maybe it’s “make room for home office” or “simple living.” Putting your ideas and goals on paper will both give you a clear destination and help you get there, too.

People have many apprehensions about scaling down – but they’re easily overcome.

Hopefully, the SDMS has helped you figure out your goals. Nonetheless, the execution of the plan can still be daunting. If you’re feeling apprehensive, rest assured that this is perfectly normal.

Maybe you’re thinking, “But I might regret throwing this out later on!” Most people have done this – thrown something out only to regret it a few days later, so this is definitely an understandable mentality.

Instead of massive, space-consuming collections, try smaller or even non-physical ones.

Do you have hundreds of records or books that you dread schlepping around next time you move? If you’re a collector, you probably invested countless hours and dollars into your collection, not to mention a great deal of emotional energy.

Some collectors love the thrill of the hunt. Desiring that rare item, searching for weeks, months, sometimes even years, and finally getting it and adding it to the collection is a rewarding and satisfying experience.

Among the various strategies for scaling down are grouping and skimming.

Okay, maybe you’ve resolved to collect memories instead of shoes. That’s great! But there’s still the business of getting rid of all the excess that you’ve already accrued, so let’s explore some of the most common scaling-down strategies.

One strategy is called grouping. It consists of grouping together all the duplicate items to get a grasp of what should stay and what should go.

Performing triage and taking a photograph are more great strategies for scaling down.

Everyone is different, and different people will prefer different scaling-down methods. So, in addition to grouping and skimming, try out these two additional strategies to find the best fit for you.

Performing triage means collecting all the items in question into one spot, then picking out three from the pile randomly.

You’ll feel better about scaling down if you give your stuff a good home.

You’ve now successfully found a strategy that works for you and have culled the best from the rest. But the idea of trashing all your old belongings is still pretty distasteful, right? Well, the good news is that you don’t have to!

Finding good homes for your stuff is actually an important part of scaling down in a happy, healthy way.

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Scaling Down (2005) will help you understand the impulse to accumulate more things than you actually need, and why, once you’ve acquired those things, you don’t want to let them go. With a helpful step-by-step guide, it provides effective strategies for scaling down and learning to live with less.

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And so we keep on accumulating until, one day, we realize that we have been buried alive...

—Judi Culbertson, Marj Decker

Wer Scaling Down lesen sollte

Anyone who owns too much stuff
Collectors whose belongings have taken over their lives
Couples who are moving into a smaller home

Über den Autor

Judi Culbertson is an expert in organizing – so much so that she leads seminars on how to declutter one’s life. She is also the author of Traveling Light.

Marj Decker is the CEO of Time is Priceless, a company based in Denver that helps people scale down to live a simpler life.

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