Decluttering Quotes

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

I just try and keep everything simple.

I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

The more simple my life is, the happier I am.

I don't wear anything more than once most of the time. I try not to wear the same thing twice. I have too many clothes to wear the same thing twice.

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.

If you own a rug you own too much.

How many things I can do without!

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible.

I always think less is more.

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.