Hey, what's up, I am Muchelle B
and this is day 6 of the thirty day simplify your life challenge.
If you're not sure what the thirty day simplify your life challenge is about,
I will leave a link in the description down below for you to check out to get a bit more information.
Today we are looking at decluttering electronics
which sounds like such an old school word to describe things like phones et cetera.
The good thing about electronics is they're 100% not emotional at all
but they are definitely those items that you think 'but what if I need this one day?'
when you're looking through them.
That's probably the biggest struggle about electronics.
So the first step of today's challenge, as always
is to gather all of your electronics items and put them in one place
and I am going to put a big list of all the electronics that I can think of as a prompt.
If you have any more that you can think of, put them down in the comment below.
Huge items like your computer obviously, you don't need to unplug your computer and like chuck in on the floor.
So today I'm feeling kind of ill
but I'm persevering, by doing electronics today.
So first step is to gather all electronics.
Put them in a space that is not there normal space.
So step two is to go through each item and make a decision as to whether you want to get rid of it or keep it.
You can create your own sort of guiding questions to help you get through this
or you can use these kind of standard ones which is what I used.
Do I know what this item does and how to use it?
This is such a huge thing, especially when it comes to cords.
If you don't know what the cord or the item is, and you don't know how to use it,
usually it can go in the no-pile.
Number 2, do I actually use this item?
It's really easy to hoard things like old mobile phones that you'll never ever ever go back to,
old mp3-players, things like that.
Usually they are put in storage for like a just in case purpose, but in reality, you're probably not going to go back to them.
Guiding question number 3 is: does it work?
If it doesn't work, you can let it go.
When you're looking at CD's or DVD's you can ask: does it bring me joy?
And you could also consider transferring them over to your computer.
So sitting in front of me are all of the electronic items that I currently own.
I think that the biggest difference from this time to last time I decluttered my electronics,
which I'll link in the description down below,
is that I actually know what is in front of me.
So every item, I feel like I can pick it up and be like, yes, I actually know what this item is used for,
but that doesn't necessarily mean that these all play a big part in my life
or that they all are used frequently enough to keep them.
So I'm going to go through each of these electronic items, ask my guiding questions and declutter!
Return, donate, discard, sell, just the usual.
If you are selling anything, I recommend taking pictures of those items litterally right now,
chucking them up on gumtree or craigslist, whatever you use depending on the country that you're in.
So these are some items that I've held onto for way to long and I just haven't used them enough
I feel like I have to hold on to them because they were expensive,
but I genuinly don't use them enough to warrant keeping them.
And over here I've got all the stuff that I'm keeping,
which, most of it is camera stuff to be honest.
There is like, my light and everything like that, my lenses, different camera's,
and here I have like my straightener, a glidecam that I have not used, a tablet is in there as well.
When it comes to electrical stuff, I'm not donating it, just because these items were pretty expensive
so I'll probably pop them up onto somewhere like, a gumtree.
So my camerastuff has always been a little weird, it just hasn't had it's own designated spot,
like it's sort of just been scattered everywhere to be honest.
So I'm going to designate it the space up under my bed
just so that I know, whenever I have camera stuff, that's where it goes when I return it,
straight under my bed, unless it's like litteraly a cord that I use to plug my camera into my computer
then it makes a bit more sense for it to sit in my computer permanently
because I'm lazy and I never take it out, and I use it every week so it makes more sense.
So now I just gotta do a little cleanout of the drawer under my bed and then I'm going to chug everyting back
into a designated little spot.
And the last step is to celebrate how great you are!
As always! Day 6!
I hope that you're enjoying the challenge and finding i helpful so far.
Let me know how you're going in the comments down below if you're sticking to it, if you're finding it though.
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