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Week 52 | Garage Items | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Garage Items

garage-clutter-professional-organizerGarage Items tend to accumulate at warp speed. Before you know it, you have a garage that you can barely walk through, much less park in.

Garage Items to Downsize and Minimalize

Do you still have old sporting equipment no longer played with? Time to sell it, donate it, or pitch it if it’s in rough shape.

How about those extra pieces of home improvement items you worked on 5, 10, 15 years ago? Excess tile, flooring, carpet, wood scraps, paint now clumpy that doesn’t match any walls in the house? Free up your garage by letting go of garage items that are no longer needed nor usable.

IDEA: Donate tools, hardware, and home improvement items to organizations such as Habitat for Humanity or give away for free onfreecycle.org or nextdoor.com

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Week 51 | Mismatched Tupperware | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Mismatched Tupperware

food-containerWe all seem to find more plastic lids than containers to go with them after a point in time. So what to do with all the Mismatched Tupperware? It can get hard to keep up with!

Mismatched Tupperware Containers and Lids

Any food storage container that is missing a lid is never quite as useful. It actually starts to become a big waste of space.

Spend the week going through your plastic containers, along with all of the extra lids, and when you’re all finished? Recycle things you don’t have a partner for. That’s right! If you can’t find them now, chances are you never will.

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Week 50 | Broken Holiday Decorations | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Broken Holiday Decorations

holiday-decorationsHow many old and Broken Holiday Decorations tend to make it year after year back into your storage bins? It’s time to let them go.

Worn and Broken Holiday Decorations

You may have had great intentions to fix it or simply can’t bear to part with it. But now what?

It sits in the bottom of a storage bin for years.

This year, as you’re decorating around the house for the holidays, or when you go to take down the decorations in a few weeks, get rid of the worn, outdated, and broken items that no longer serve a purpose.

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Week 49 | Greeting, Birthday and Holiday Cards | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Greeting, Birthday and Holiday Cards

greeting-cardsNo matter how many times we say we are going to make a cute craft out of all of the sweet Greeting, Birthday and Holiday Cards we get, it never seems to happen. Before we know it, we have a drawer full of cards that are taking up space.

Greeting, Birthday and Holiday Cards

This is a great week to go through the stacks of old cards and downsize. It’s nice to keep a few of the more meaningful ones from loved ones. But if not careful, you will have drawers, boxes, and cabinets filled with them.

Have cards been sitting in a drawer or on the top of a shelf, and you haven’t peeked at them for months? Then you’re not going to miss them now. Go through the cards one last time, take a digital photo if you need to, and then recycle, recycle, recycle.

There are many different craft ideas that you can do with your cards that you can find on Pinterest. With the ones that you keep, think about finding a great way to utilize the remaining cards!

IDEA: Take a digital photo of a picture card and upload it into your phone contacts as the one that pops up for that person when they call.

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Week 48 | Unrepairable Items | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Unrepairable Items

rusty-broken-bikeWho has a million unrepairable items hanging around the house that… let’s face it…you’re never going to fix. Time to downsize and get rid of them this week!

Unrepairable Items in the Home

Whether it’s old rusty tools, broken dishes, children’s toys, clothing that needs serious mending, or things in the garage that you SWORE you were going to fix, it’s time to make an executive decision and take action. They’ve been sitting around for ages cluttering your living space. Are they even repairable at this point?

You fought the good fight, but now it’s time to admit that the chances of you fixing these items is zero. Let them go and welcome uncluttered space into your home.