Make smart personalized choices when decluttering your home

TO discard or not to discard, that is the question. You’d expect this article to be a clear, strict guideline of time limitations of owning certain articles of clothing (sheva brachos clothing, we’re coming for you!), rules regarding how many stock paper towel rolls is the correct quantity, and an outline of which papers are deemed save-worthy and which, no matter the personal sentiment, must be tossed.

Sounds like a bunch of impersonal and strict rules to me.

What follows, instead, are some suggestions, mindsets, and perspectives that will empower you, dear aspiring organized homemakers, to make smart personalized choices when decluttering your home.

First DO:

Declutter the Obvious

Select a category, be it shoes, toys, gloves, or tools.

Easily and quickly clear your space by discarding that which is obviously garbage.

Bedroom: empty shoeboxes, broken hangers, grotesque-looking sheitel heads.

Kitchen: appliance boxes, smelly food storage containers, rusty peelers.

Everywhere: extra shopping bags, empty packaging, anything broken beyond repair!

Once the Obvious garbage has been cleared out, it’s so much easier to see the actual work ahead of you. And you’ll already be feeling lighter as those garbage bags pile up!