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The New Year is the perfect time to usher out the old…by decluttering. Ring in 2025 with a clean slate in the following simple ways:
Donate, Donate, Donate
Donating gently used items is the ideal way to declutter your home while giving back to your community. You can find organizations that’ll take just about anything, from old snow pants to the workout gear you never entirely integrated into your routine.
While it might be tradition to fill your car with your to-donate items and drive around for three months before dropping them off, donating before January assures a 2024 tax write-off.
Invest in Storage Bins
Out of sight, out of mind! Storage bins empower you to organize your home while keeping your nicknacks, books, blankets, shoes, and more hidden inside closets, underneath beds, and on top of kitchen cabinets.
Invest in a handful of bins from places like Amazon or the Container Store. After all, storage bins are the clutter whisperers that keep your place in order.
Get Rid of Expired Items
You probably have more expired items in your home than you think. The medication cabinet and the spice rack are two areas where expiration dates run wild.
Take an hour or so to rifle through the pills and pepper and discard anything outdated. Past-expiration-date medications are less effective, while spices grow stale and tasteless.
Conquer the Junk Drawer
Are you even an adult if you don’t have a jampacked drawer full of spare keys, random cords, old credit cards, and scotch tape? While a junk drawer serves a purpose, one that is too cluttered makes it more difficult to find things.
Take a few minutes to empty your drawer and sort through its contents. Ditch anything you don’t need to make room for what you do!
Take Stock of Relationships
When we think of decluttering, we usually think of things, but people may also fit the bill. Decluttering your relationships might be even healthier than decluttering your home!
Take stock of your friendships and remove any that feel toxic or one-sided. Finding time to foster meaningful connections is hard enough; there’s little point in encouraging the destructive ones, too.
You can find plenty of ways to ring 2025 on a decluttered foot. The above checklist is a great way to turn over a new leaf as the clock strikes midnight.
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