{"id":1800,"date":"2013-04-03T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:20:40","slug":"reduce-one-third-of-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/ein-drittel-des-haushaltes-reduzieren\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce one third of the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_1646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1804\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_1646-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1646\" width=\"322\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Today, while thinking about the upcoming move to the ship - hopefully in nine months' time - I realised that I will have a similar amount of living space, but far less floor space for furniture.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if I want to have a nice and uncluttered space on board, I have to reduce my possessions by about 1\/3 before the move.<\/p>\n<p>In concrete terms, this means 1\/3 less<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clothing<\/li>\n<li>Documents<\/li>\n<li>Pictures<\/li>\n<li>Spices<\/li>\n<li>Books<\/li>\n<li>Decorative items<\/li>\n<li>Furniture<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen utensils<\/li>\n<li>Packaging material<\/li>\n<li>Flower vases<\/li>\n<li>Shoes<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I took a deep breath...that really is a lot. Sorting things out takes strength. The brain finds nothing as exhausting as making decisions, because thousands of facts have to be considered intensively and at lightning speed when making a decision. Mental peak performance. That's why things like filing are so exhausting: because you constantly have to decide: Do I still need this or not? After just 15 such decision-making processes, your brain is exhausted...and needs a rest. If you keep pushing - because the mountain is so high - you'll be totally exhausted at some point. Everyone knows that.<\/p>\n<p>I want to avoid that.<\/p>\n<h3>Strategy 1: Sort out regularly<\/h3>\n<p>I will make time for sorting out after lunch on work days - occasionally more at the weekend. The fixed time is important, because planning something for \u201esometime\u201c is almost a guarantee that it will never happen. During this time, I want to organise around 20 - 50 things (crockery, clothes, documents). I then want to decide which third of them won't be allowed on the boat.<\/p>\n<p>And plan what I want to do with the remaining third.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throwing things away (I am extremely reluctant to do this if they are things that others could still use)<\/li>\n<li>Give away<\/li>\n<li>Repurpose<\/li>\n<li>Auction or sell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The average household has around 10,000 items. In 9 x 20 working days - with 50 items per day - I should have sorted through approx. 9000 items.<\/p>\n<h3>Strategy 2: Do not replace some things<\/h3>\n<p>With some things, I assume that they will disappear over time anyway because they break or are used up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Socks, underwear\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cosmetics<\/li>\n<li>Spices<\/li>\n<li>Cleaning kit<\/li>\n<li>Envelopes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here, I want to try not to replace things that are going bye-bye by themselves, but to make do with less. Or, for example, to reduce the variety of cleaning products and make do with a few basic cleaners. This should - hopefully - make the remaining things manageable.<\/p>\n<h3>Strategy 3: Swap<\/h3>\n<p>There are only a few things that I probably need more of on the ship than I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Cushion<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Bedding<\/li>\n<li>Planter boxes for fruit, vegetables and herbs<\/li>\n<li>Crockery and cutlery (presumably)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe I can swap with some people, for example.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children's books for pillows<\/li>\n<li>Art against kitchen furniture<\/li>\n<li>Cloths against solar chargers<\/li>\n<li>Napkins for flower pots or planters<\/li>\n<li>Cupboards against garden furniture<\/li>\n<li>Everything possible against lead for the ship<\/li>\n<li>Who has what?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What motivates me in particular for the next few weeks: It's my birthday at the end of April. There is traditionally a <strong>Birthday table - for my guests.<\/strong> It contains all the things I want to give away. And anyone who wants to can help themselves! It's a joy every year to see things that I no longer need find a new, happier owner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imitation allowed - freedom is good for you:\u00a0<\/strong>There are even<a title=\"Impulse booklet Letting go\" href=\"http:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/ih-loslassen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Impulses <\/a>from me - slimming down makes life more beautiful and easier. Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/l\/o\/loslassen11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/down-to-earth.de\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/l\/o\/loslassen11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Impulse booklet Letting go<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heute wurde mir beim Nachdenken \u00fcber den bevorstehenden Umzug auf das Schiff &#8211; in hoffentlich neun Monaten bewusst: ich werde \u00e4hnlich viel Wohnraum, aber weit weniger Stellfl\u00e4che f\u00fcr&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Ein Drittel des Haushaltes reduzieren","_seopress_titles_desc":"Ein Drittel des Haushaltes reduzieren. 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