20 Easy Things to Toss for Home Organization
Here’s one easy way to kick off reaching your home organization goals-toss some stuff! Look around your room or your home and start with easy decisions by getting rid of the clutter that needs to go in the garbage, recycle or shredder. Getting those items out of your way will instantly give you visible results. Visible results keep us motivated to keep going!
Here are 20 items that you should just let go today:
1) Food wrappers/fast food packages.
2) Pop cans (soda-East Coast I hear ya).
3) Old newspapers-it’s old news, let it go!
4) Old magazines. You can get the info. online, or you can rip out the articles or pictures that you really want to save in a notebook.
5) Recipes torn out of magazines that you aren’t ever really going to make.
6) Cardboard boxes-please let them go! If you really must keep some, keep a select few and store them flat.
7) Broken items. If you can’t fix it or won’t fix it, throw it away.
Old chemicals and paints-drop off at your local hazardous waste station.
9) Broken clothes hangers, wire clothes hangers.
10) Old paperwork that doesn’t need to be kept for tax, financial or legal purposes.
11) Old receipts that don’t need to be kept for tax, financial or legal purposes.
12) Plates & cups with chips-not safe.
13) Expired food, not worth it-let it go!
14) Old spices, they only last roughly 3 years
15) Broken or recalled toys.
16) Car seats that have been in an accident.
17) Pet waste-hate to say it but I’ve seen it all.
18) Expired calendars, if you must keep the pictures, then actually rip them out and frame them.
19) Old cell phones-get those to a drop off station.
20) Old batteries-drop batteries off at a local recycle center.
Wouldn’t it be great if all of these items were out of the way? Once these items are gone, you can work on the rest that is still left. Decluttering means making decisions. I’ve written a whole ‘nother post right here to help you with the decluttering process so you don’t feel overwhelmed!
Tags: clutter, declutter, decluttering process, DIY organization, garbage, hazardous waste, home, Home Organization, Home Organization Blog, recycle
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