{"id":660,"date":"2023-03-12T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2023-03-12T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:20:46","slug":"do-i-really-need-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/do-i-really-need-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Really Need This?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bringing stuff into your house is easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Letting go of it&nbsp;is a lot harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they say with holes, the easiest way to get out of a hole is to stop digging one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the easiest way to declutter your home is to stop stuffing it.<br><strong>Think before you buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easier said than done, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Documentary filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn explores both what drives us to buy beyond our needs, and how we can stop ourselves doing it in her film,&nbsp;<strong>Do I Need This?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s scheduled to air&nbsp;on PBS stations later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, here are questions Kate suggests you ask<br>yourself before completing that next transaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Would this item make my life better or happier?<br><br>2. Can I use something else in its place?<br><br>3.&nbsp; Do I already own something similar?<br><br>4.&nbsp; Do I have a place to keep it?<br><br>5.&nbsp; Can I afford it?<br><br>6.&nbsp; Can I live without it?<br><br>7.&nbsp; If I walk away for 10 minutes, will I come back for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember: It not only takes money to buy something, but space and energy to keep and care for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The few minutes you take to reconsider your purchase before you make it could end up saving you hours of time and money when you&#8217;re trying to figure out how to get rid of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a pocket-sized printout of Kate&#8217;s questions, <a href=\"mailto:maria@onthemovenow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just ask<\/a>, and we&#8217;ll send you one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing stuff into your house is easy.\u00a0 Letting go of it&nbsp;is a lot harder. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}