Hi there, I'm Angela Oberer. And today's good idea comes from Miriam.
Miriam is from a family of Hoarders. They've got three houses that they are using as storage
units, not to mention that they can never find anything because it's always at one
of the other three places. Not to mention that you have to secure all your stuff.
You've got to pay to make sure nobody breaks in and steals your stuff, and
you have to keep all the weather and the elements off your stuff, like the wind and the rain
and whatever else is going to damage your property.
So keeping up with stuff requires a whole lot of emotional energy and time, and money
and why? Why are you hoarding all this stuff?
I get it, hoarding comes from a place of creativity - you see something that is broken, and you're
like "hey, I could use a piece of this to fix something over here. Awesome, I'm going to save it."
Or it comes from a place of scarcity, you buy something new,
but you save the old one that you have that currently works, in case this one breaks,
then you'll have a back up. Awesome.
But it's not really that awesome it it? When you have rooms, and closets, and garages
full of stuff that you don't know where anything is.
Now Miriam would send her parents away for a couple of days every year, and she and her siblings
would rent the city dump truck and they would haul away loads of junk to the junkyard.
And when the parents got home they would look around and like: "Wow, the place is beautiful. It's clean!"
Not realizing that half their stuff was missing.
They didn't even miss it. Okay, so, for me, to change my hoarding mentality,
I had to consider that I don't need most of the stuff I have.
I don't even need it. I don't use it. Why store it?
So get rid of all your stuff. And for me I picked Walmart. Walmart is my closet.
They're open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and they have all my stuff.
Everything that I need, Clothing, cables,cords, electrical, batteries, cleaning supplies,
and vitamins - it's all at Walmart.
And they have teams of people that have organized all the shelves. So when I need something,
I just go, it's right there. Pick exactly what I need.
And Walmart doesn't even charge me a monthly storage fee for all of the stuff I store there.
They only charge me for the items I take out of the store.
It's awesome! I don't even have to pay all the these other fees:
storage, shipping all that stuff. It's already paid for me, and built into the price of the few things I take.
So change your way of thinking.
In your home, everything should have a place, and everything should be in it's place.
It's very freeing and it's a great way to live, not to mention it's a good idea.
It's a good idea.