Would you like a strategy for items that have nowhere to ‘live’ in your home?

By Martha Tobin, Owner at Declutter4Good

Would you like a strategy for items that have nowhere to ‘live’ in your home?

Problem:  

Items that have nowhere to ‘live’ in your home (for example):   

• inherited items that you are not using or displaying
• clothing that is piling up in corners
• items that gather on the dining room table or kitchen counter
• items that you have tucked out of sight in the bottom of closets
  

Strategy:

1. Review these items one area at a time (ie. dining room table)
2. Sort items into ‘like with like’ categories
3. Review these categories and remove duplicates as well as items that are damaged or items that you already know you no longer need/want
4. Pack up any items that can be sold/donated or need to be recycled/trash
5. What you are left with are your ‘keeps’
6. Decide where these ‘keeps’ belong in your home (ie tech items to a ‘tech drawer’, kids clothing back to their rooms, out of season items in labelled bins in garage, closet or basement)
   

As a general rule of thumb when organizing and decluttering, if an item has nowhere to ‘live’ in your home it might be time to let these items go.