Look, it’s a series about me needing to get my shit together. I make no excuses for my tardiness beyond that.
But I do still really want you guys to join me on this journey. Link up, okay lurkers?
We’ve de-cluttered the dining room a bit and our table has become the family hub again.
{Can I get a woot woot?}
I’ve become obsessed with this graphic on how purging can directly improve your life, which Sara sent me after she saw it on SwissMiss who was reposting via the geniuses at Unconsumption, and boy is it right on with my own retail therapy binge and purge patterns.
Sara also pointed me to where the lovely Tina over at SM also quote THIS pretty mind blowing article from the Unclutterer (which, HELLO – I’m in love) about how scientific studies has shown that clutter really does negatively effect your well being:
Scientists find physical clutter negatively affects your ability to focus, process information
Researchers at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute published the results of a study they conducted in the January issue of The Journal of Neuroscience that relates directly to uncluttered and organized living. From their report “Interactions of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mechanisms in Human Visual Cortex”:
Multiple stimuli present in the visual field at the same time compete for neural representation by mutually suppressing their evoked activity throughout visual cortex, providing a neural correlate for the limited processing capacity of the visual system.
Or, to paraphrase in non-neuroscience jargon: When your environment is cluttered, the chaos restricts your ability to focus. The clutter also limits your brain’s ability to process information. Clutter makes you distracted and unable to process information as well as you do in an uncluttered, organized, and serene environment.
I mean…THAT IS SCIENCE. PURGE WITH ME, PEOPLE. YOU’LL LIVE LONGER.
So, are you guys going to keep making me feel like a loser with no friends, or what?
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