The Psychology of Clutter: Ways Cognitive Bias Plays A Role in Your Clutter

Holding on to things we don’t need and the accumulation of clutter over the years is due to many factors…

• Spending habits
• Shopping habits
• Money management
• Emotional connection
• Past traumas

While all of these contribute to clutter in your home, each has its own deeper inner connection as a root cause.

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Key Takeaways

Here are a few key takeaways:

Loss Aversion

• The desire to avoid losses even over equivalent gains.
• This is part of the internal reasoning we may hold on to things.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

• Past expenses and investments may be hindering our judgement when it comes to our stuff.
• An expensive piece of furniture that we don’t use anymore may be harder to part ways with because we spent so much on it and feel like we’re losing our investment.

The Endowment Effect

• Cognitive bias where we value things that we own as worth more than they are because we own them.

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