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We become invested in our junk,         current state of the item. If not,
through the price we paid when we       it should leave your house.
bought it and brought it home, and      It's all too easy to get caught up
we're loathe to look at that as         in the value of what something was
wasted money. Use the "Stock            and ignore what the value is now.
Theory of Decluttering" to help         While helping a friend clean out
purge your junk.                        his workshop he was very resistant 

Photo by jm3.                           to disposing of an old computer.
Over at the simple living and           It was a piece of old junk that
productivity blog                       took up space but he still saw the
SimpleProductivityBlog they share       $5,000 price tag the once-premium
a method for helping you assess         machine had fetched long, long ago.
whether something is worth keeping.     Would he have bought it
Dubbed the "Stocky Theory of            again—likely for $25 at a
Decluttering" their technique           garage sale!—if given the
focuses on current value, not past:     chance today? Of course not, the
If you are considering buying a         only value the machine had was the
stock, you decide partly on how         phantom value he assigned to it.
much it costs now.                      You can read more about the "Stock
In the Stock Theory of                  Theory of Decluttering" at the
Decluttering, you decide if you         link below. If you have experience
would buy the object today, at          grappling with your own clutter we
today's prices, knowing what you        want to hear about it in the
know about the usefulness and the       comments.                          

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