Understanding Your Style: Part 6 of 6: Keeps vs Goes

 
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Part 6 of 6: Understanding Your Style - Keeps vs Goes

Learning to understand your style, and the styles of those you dwell with, will increase your success and bring more peace and joy during your organizing ventures. Which style are you? 

Keeps

  • Tends to have a lot of things

  • Shelves, drawers, cabinets may be overflowing with things

  • Has a harder time getting rid of things

  • Holds onto things because choosing what to get rid of is too hard

  • Can get very emotionally attached to things

  • Often feels too guilty to get rid of things that were a gift or are expensive

  • Can more easily identify favorite items than least favorite ones

  • Is overwhelmed with the idea of getting rid of things

Goes

  • Doesn’t have or need a lot of things to be happy 

  • Keeps what they actually use 

  • It doesn’t make sense to keep what they don’t need or use

  • This person’s philosophy is, less is more

  • Is typically not emotionally attached to things

  • Getting rid of things is easy and feels good

  • Doesn’t want to spend time maintaining a lot of things

  • Wants less things but more high quality things

  • Likes a simple clean look with minimal decorations

If you live with people who’s keeps or goes style is opposite to yours, then seeking some give and take and balance between these two styles will be helpful to increase harmony in the home. Hiring an organizer to work with a keeps style person is very often needed while this person is learning to overcome their personal obstacles to letting go of things and getting assistance in setting up systems that will work for them.  A goes style person who lives with a keeper can also benefit from a one-on-one session with an organizer to share what they would most like to see accomplished while also gaining understanding of the keeps and goes differences and how to successfully help encourage their keeper toward success.

I hope you have gained greater understanding of your own style and the styles of those you live with by reading this six part series called Understanding Your Style. My desire is that this knowledge will help you build bridges between yourself and those you live with, while developing more relational harmony and increasing your organizing success.

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