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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give yourself permission to toss. [b]Sometimes we are paralyzed because we see that the item “ could be useful to someone, sometime” and don’t want to get rid of it.
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For paper, here’s the important thing. Do not bring it into the house if you don’t absolutely need it. I check my mail over the recycle bin - if I don’t need it it goes right in, or else if it’s something like a credit card offer that someone could take, I rip it into shreds and put it right in the trash in the kitchen. If you do need it, march it right upstairs to the filing cabinet that you will set up this year and put it away.

Today I just decluttered the entryway table because I needed to move it to have a dryer delivered. I also decluttered the stuff that sat on top of the old dryer. I also recently went through the pantry to figure out what baking supplies I had and tossed all the old items. I think the last time I did that was in 2020, so there was some stuff that was at least five years old that shouldn’t have stayed that long. I’m going to do better about not stockpiling so much stuff, which is a habit I had first after living overseas and having to deal with the commissary supply chain (if you see it, buy it because you never know when you’ll see it again) and then Covid. My shelves are so tight that I never really did that thing of putting the new things in the back and using them from the front.

After doing some big decluttering, make a resolution that this year you will go through your house every day and either put away or toss just five things. [/quote]

The bolded is my problem. Especially if the items are hidden because I've stuffed everything in to drawers and closets. It's easy to just let the stuff stay there even though I know even the hidden clutter causes tension.[/quote]

If this is you, donate.  If the item could be useful to someone, it’s much more likely to get into that person’s hands at Goodwill than shoved in one of my drawers.[/quote]

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