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De clutter, de clutter and de clutter.

The end.

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This. Also, don’t buy stuff you don’t need. My general rule is to buy stuff as replacement. For example, I just bought a new kitchen sink mat, meaning that I threw out the old one. [/quote]

Yeah I try to stick to the one-in, one-out rule.

THe biggest violator is my MIL who has a "grandma bag" full of random toys, books, and other crap she brings and leaves at the house every single time she comes over.[/quote]

And by this I mean she refills the bag EVERY time she comes over with new dollar store junk and leaves it all here.  So every week or two, it's another bag of crap left in my small townhouse.[/quote]

Why can’t your spouse put their foot down? Store old grandma crap in a box, and have spouse show her the accumulation? Not trying to make you feel singled out, but curious, and very good at getting my way. For example, my mom kept buying kid vetch toys, (which I loathe,) even though we had expressed a preference for non-electronic toys. So I left them at her house, or kept taking them back to her house until she got the message. Can spouse not stand up to MIL? This isn’t a cleaning problem; it’s a boundaries problem. Hope this helps. [/quote]

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