Humans are creatures of habit. The longer we live at a residence, the more inanimate objects we tend to accumulate. It isn't unusual for people to park their cars outside because their garage acts as an extra storage facility.
The key to chipping away at the stacks of boxes and books is organization. What may seem like a daunting task can be simplified to three piles:
- Keep it.
- Toss it.
- Donate it.
Colored glassware, old books and toys, silverware, baseball cards, salt and pepper shakers, there is someone out there who may want your stuff. Before you decide to toss an item, carefully think if it could possibly fall into a collectible category or if someone less fortunate than you, who might be starting from scratch, could use it.
If an item is simply not worthy of donating or keeping, before you toss it, can it be recycled? If not, then you put it in the garbage.
Check out your local homeless shelters and organizations that you could donate your things to. Some of them may have the ability to pick large items up.
For more tips and ideas, check out this tutorial that will help you assess if it really needs to be in your house.
