April is Stress Awareness Money 2022 and one of the best ways of cutting stress is cutting your clutter, and storing it with Edinburgh Self Storage rather than throwing it out if that would cause you even more stress in the long run. You might be sentimentally attached to it or intend to repurpose or even re-gift it at a later date and not have the time to properly sort through it right now.
What is Stress Awareness Month and how can clutter contribute to stress?
Stress Awareness Month has been declared every April since 1992 to raise awareness of the causes and cures of what it calls the ‘modern stress epidemic.’
You might consider clutter a slight energy drain, but it also drains you of your time, and according to the principles of feng shui, clutter drains you of your positive energy to the point that you can actually feel it!
If your environment is full of stuff that you really don’t need to have to hand and that you could safely store in your storage unit at Edinburgh Self Storage instead, you’ll spend fewer hours looking for lost keys, money, shoes, tools, etc. Even when you’re looking right at it, it’s far trickier to spot when it’s surrounded by a guddle of clutter. The extra time it takes to search through the mess quickly adds up.
Paper bills can get lost too, causing you to accrue late fees, or you end up replacing ‘lost’ items and buying duplicates that you forgot you already had.
How clutter can take its toll on your stress levels
A pristine home isn’t a reality for most busy people, and especially if you’re parents of wee ones, and it’s just as important not to hold yourself to impossibly high standards of neatness because a little clutter is okay. But when it gets too much is when it amps up your stress levels.
The first sign that you might have too much clutter is the effect it has on your stress levels while at home. It’s helpful to remember that you can best appreciate your home when it feels like your sanctuary.
Having guests over becomes an embarrassment or something that takes ages to prepare for, or each room is a reminder of all the work that needs to be done.
Using your home for activities like exercising becomes difficult or impossible without taking precious time to clear the space.
A cluttered home can be the furthest thing from a haven from stress and this is a big stressor in itself and intensifies the frustration and exhaustion that you probably already feel. Perhaps the clutter in your home is also contributing to family discord too because some of you have more clutter than others?
Edinburgh Self Storage can help
Call Edinburgh Self Storage today and allow us to help reduce your stress levels. We are located in the landmark Jenners Depository, off Balgreen Road, in the Murrayfield area of central Edinburgh. We offer individual self storage units in Edinburgh for home and business users.
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