{"id":17493,"date":"2015-08-08T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2015\/08\/downsizing-better-now.html"},"modified":"2015-08-08T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T18:57:11","slug":"downsizing-better-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2015\/08\/downsizing-better-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Report: Downsizing: Better Now Than Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"img-left\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laurie_cornell c.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2015\/08\/laurie_cornell20c.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"225\" width=\"150\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"img-caption\">Laurie Cornell is founder of Onward and Upward Inc. in Saratoga Springs\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BY LAURIE CORNELL<\/p>\n<p>The Situation: 25 percent of people with two car<br \/>\ngarages don&#8217;t have room to park cars inside<br \/>\nthem and 32 percent only have room for one vehicle,<br \/>\naccording to the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has upward of 50,000 storage<br \/>\nfacilities, more than five times the number<br \/>\nof Starbucks. Currently, there is 7.3 square feet<br \/>\nof self-storage space for every man, woman and<br \/>\nchild in the nation. Thus, it is physically possible<br \/>\nthat every American could stand&#8211;all at the same<br \/>\ntime&#8211;under the total canopy of self-storage<br \/>\nroofing (SSA).<\/p>\n<p>Further statistics regarding unnecessary<br \/>\naccumulation and the resulting cluttered disorganization<br \/>\nare probably not necessary. Most folks<br \/>\njust need to look around their own spaces to bear<br \/>\npersonal witness. <em><\/em><br \/>\nPerhaps the surfaces are tidy&#8230;<br \/>\nbut you know, it&#8217;s on your mind&#8230; the closet in the<br \/>\nbasement, the filing cabinets in the storage unit,<br \/>\nthe boxes in the back of the closet, the attic or<br \/>\nshed, maybe even the &#8220;guest room&#8221; that is really<br \/>\njust a dumping ground.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you don&#8217;t even have the energy to<br \/>\nworry about your own space because you&#8217;re<br \/>\nfocused on the horror story you heard from a<br \/>\nco-worker who spent all their vacation time and<br \/>\nevery weekend for the last six months helping<br \/>\ntheir parents downsize and get ready to move into<br \/>\na smaller more efficient space.<\/p>\n<p>The situation pure and simple is: just about<br \/>\neveryone has more stuff than they need or want<br \/>\nand for one reason or another would love for a<br \/>\ngood portion of it to vanish or at least go away painlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons to Downsize: Practical and Emotional<br \/>\nOver the course of our lifetime, we will spend<br \/>\na total of 3,680 hours or 153 days searching for<br \/>\nmisplaced items. The research found we lose up<br \/>\nto nine items every day&#8211;or 198,743 in a lifetime.<br \/>\nPhones, keys, sunglasses, and paperwork top the<br \/>\nlist (The Daily Mail).<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported that the<br \/>\naverage U.S. executive wastes six weeks per year<br \/>\nsearching for missing information in messy desks<br \/>\nand files.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crisis&#8221; purchases related to disorganization<br \/>\ncould cost as much as 15 to 20 percent of your<br \/>\nannual budget.<\/p>\n<p>I think Joshua Becker, author of www.becomingminimalist.com, explains the advantages<br \/>\nmost clearly: &#8220;We began donating, recycling, and<br \/>\nremoving our unnecessary personal possessions.<br \/>\nWe embarked on an intentional journey to own<br \/>\nless stuff. As a result, we discovered more money,<br \/>\nmore time, more energy, more freedom, less stress,<br \/>\nand more opportunity to pursue our greatest passions:<br \/>\nfaith, family, friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rite of passage as we all grow older and the<br \/>\nnumber of people living at home grows smaller.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t need the big house and we&#8217;d rather not<br \/>\nspend our free time maintaining the homestead.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a privilege of getting older to choose a smaller<br \/>\nmore manageable space or maybe two&#8211;one here<br \/>\nare one down south for winter time.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s you, your parents, friends or<br \/>\nrelatives most people would love to be free of<br \/>\nthe burden of a large home with space that&#8217;s not<br \/>\nused and stuff that hasn&#8217;t seen the light of day in<br \/>\ndecades. So why not get started?<\/p>\n<p>What to do about it?<br \/>\nThe $8 billion home organization industry has<br \/>\nmore than doubled in size since the early 2000s,<br \/>\ngrowing at a staggering rate of 10 percent each<br \/>\nyear.<\/p>\n<p>As a seasoned member of the &#8220;organizational<br \/>\nindustry,&#8221; I recommend starting now, get a date<br \/>\non the calendar. What you own is only likely to<br \/>\nincrease over time not decrease. Hire a professional.<\/p>\n<p>I help people downsize, that&#8217;s what I do.<br \/>\nAll of my clients, without exception, no longer<br \/>\nsubscribe to the theory that bigger is better or<br \/>\nthe more the merrier. Smaller is saner, it&#8217;s not<br \/>\na quantity conversation, it&#8217;s about quality of life<br \/>\nand peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no magic number or special formula<br \/>\nthat dictates the amount of stuff that&#8217;s right for<br \/>\nyou or for anyone. Like so many other things it&#8217;s<br \/>\nabout finding the balance, setting some boundaries<br \/>\nand most of all conquering fear. Fear you say?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, getting rid of stuff takes courage and getting<br \/>\nrid of things that you really don&#8217;t like can be emotional and overwhelming. Yes, read that again. It<br \/>\ndoes sound odd. It seems counter-intuitive that<br \/>\ngetting rid of things you don&#8217;t really want anyway<br \/>\nand experiencing some peace of mind should be<br \/>\nso hard &#8211; to start with anyway. You do build sorting<br \/>\nstamina over time.<\/p>\n<p>To put it another way: you only have to keep<br \/>\nthings that give you joy or serve some specific<br \/>\ndesignated purpose (like a stapler or tax documents).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s natural to need a little help in getting<br \/>\nstarted and well worth the short term investment<br \/>\nwhether at home, at work, the family camp or<br \/>\nthe storage unit get a move on. Sooner is better<br \/>\nthan later.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in the Way?<br \/>\nIf you know it will feel great, what&#8217;s stopping<br \/>\nyou? We weren&#8217;t taught in school how to regulate<br \/>\nthe stuff in our lives to maintain peace of mind.<br \/>\nYou can try reading the books. &#8220;The Life-Changing<br \/>\nMagic of Tidying&#8221; by Marie Kondo is one of my<br \/>\npersonal favorites. Apparently, for most of us,<br \/>\nhands on, one-on-one is the key. Someone objective<br \/>\nhelping you with your stuff&#8211;asking questions,<br \/>\ngetting clarity, being bold and honest and<br \/>\ncompassionate&#8211;and apparently asking for help<br \/>\nis tough for many of us.<\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;ll have to do it someday. For<br \/>\nthose who are worried about a family member and<br \/>\nthinking that they are really the ones that could<br \/>\nuse the help, here&#8217;s a little reality check. You can&#8217;t<br \/>\nforce someone to sort, organize, downsize or discard.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t talk them into it. The best and only<br \/>\nway to motivate someone is to be a good example.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are your relative is just as scared<br \/>\nas you are. Or overwhelmed or short on time or<br \/>\nenergy. But if they hear that you can do it, then<br \/>\nthey may think they can too. When they hear the<br \/>\nsense of relief in your voice and understand that<br \/>\nthe process really won&#8217;t kill them and may even<br \/>\nbe fun&#8211;that sooner really is better than later.<\/p>\n<p>Why not feel great now and make space in your<br \/>\nlife for more passion and fun instead of the same<br \/>\nold stuff and worries?<\/p>\n<p><em>Cornell is a professional organizer, senior<br \/>\nmove manager and founder of Onward &amp;<br \/>\nUpward, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy Onward and Upward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Laurie Cornell is founder of Onward and Upward Inc. in Saratoga SpringsBY LAURIE CORNELL The Situation: 25 percent of people with two car garages don&#8217;t have room to park cars inside them and 32 percent only have room for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-17493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-reports","tag-business-reports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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