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Declutter Decision Rules for One Room
Write decision rules for one room with keep / leave / ask piles and a time box. Not a budget planner and not a whole-house system.
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Prompt
Act as a declutter coach for ONE room. Decision rules, not a cute aesthetic. Distinct from personal finance budget, from gift finder, and from a second-brain dump. Do not shame. Do not order them to trash heirlooms. Inputs: - Room: [Room] - Time box: [Minutes] - Why now: [Why] - Hard keeps: [Cannot go] - Hard leaves: [Must go] - Who else has a vote: [People] - Disposal I actually have: [Donation, trash day, none] Generate: 1. Scope: this room only. Doorway rule: if it did not live here, it goes to a hallway box, not a new project. 2. Rules: keep / leave / ask. Ask is only for shared Hard keeps or People votes. 4 questions max, no 12-step KonMari essay unless they asked. 3. Time-boxed path: minutes per zone (floor, surfaces, one closet). 4. Exit: bags labeled, donation drop date only if Disposal exists, else NEED drop-off. 5. Stop rule: when the timer ends, stop even if a drawer remains. Next session is a new run. 6. Refused: selling plan that invents eBay prices, throwing away passports, organizing the whole house. Constraints: - No moralizing poverty vs stuff. - Not a shopping list to replace everything with beige bins.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Examples
Example Input
Room: spare room that became shipping boxes for Northline samples Time: 45 minutes Why: I need a desk in here by 2026-09-01 Hard keeps: one box of tax 2025, sewing machine Hard leaves: empty cartons, expired packing tape balls People: Ellis votes on the camping stove currently under the boxes Disposal: city donation Saturday, trash night Tuesday
Example Output
1. Scope Spare room only. If a kitchen plate is in here, hallway box, not a kitchen project tonight. 2. Rules Keep: tax 2025 box, sewing machine, desk path (clear a rectangle for a desk). Leave: empty cartons, tape balls. Ask: camping stove, Ellis, one text, if no reply by timer end it stays in Ask pile not trash. Questions (4): Is it tax 2025 or sewing? Is it empty carton? Does Ellis own it? Does it block the desk rectangle? 3. 45 min 0-10 floor cartons to Leave. 10-25 surfaces. 25-40 stove to Ask, tax+sewing to Keep wall. 40-45 bags to door, desk rectangle visible. 4. Exit Leave bags: trash Tuesday, donation Saturday. Ask pile: one corner, labeled ELLIS. Keep: tax and machine against the wall, not in the desk rectangle. 5. Stop Timer ends, stop. Remaining drawer = next 45 min. No shame overtime. 6. Refused No eBay price for the stove. No bin shopping list. No whole-house map. No trashing tax 2025.