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Bella’s Tips & Resources

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Organizing

5 Home Organizing Mistakes To Stop Making

10 Ways to Get Organized at Home for the Planet

10 Ways To Get Organized In The New Year

50 Ways To Creatively Reuse and Repurpose Boxes

Closet Organizing Tips for Cold Weather

Closet Organizing – Maximize Your Space With Better Hangers

Garage Organizing Tips

Get Ready for Winter: Wardrobe Organizing Tips for Cold Weather

How To Fold and Organize T-Shirts

How To Handle A Child’s Toy Clutter

How to Make A Home Inventory

Kitchen Organizing – Creating A Drink Zone

Minimalism and the 80/20 Rule

Paperwork Organizing Tips

Tips to Organize Tights, Leggings, and Long Socks

Six Simple Steps to Get Organized

When is it Junk?

Decluttering

3 Simple Steps to Downsize & Minimize

10 Tips For Reducing Holiday Waste

Delutter Before the Move

Declutter the Car

Downsize Books & Magazines

Declutter Jewelry, Purses, Accessories

Declutter Junk Drawer

Declutter Kids Room

Declutter Linen Closet

Declutter Mail & Email Lists

Declutter Medicine Cabinet

Declutter Pantry & Food Cabinets

Declutter Paperwork

Declutter Shoes

Declutter Wardrobe Closet

Downsizing Storage Units

How to Declutter Magazine Collections

How To Let Go of Clothes That Clutter Your Closet and Your Life

Journals – Keep or Toss?

Consign / Sell / Donate

Bella’s Favorite Consignment Shops & Donation Centers San Francisco Bay Area

How To Sell Items At Auction

Make Cash Off Your Clutter With A Consignment Shop

Things To Keep in Mind When Donating to Goodwill

Moving and Remodeling

How To Pack A Box of Books

Getting Ready For the Packers to Arrive

How Much Should You Tip Movers? Tipping Etiquette

Organizing in Preparation For a Kitchen Remodel

Personal Moving Checklist

Preparing For A Move – What NOT To Pack

Holiday Tips

Holiday Tips for Hosts and Guests

Misc.

Interview with Betty A. Sproul, co-author of the Stuff Cure

Proper Lighting Makes An Organized Home Come To Life

Setting Intentions

Tips for Working with A Collector / Hoarder

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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 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.