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From Micro-brewery, Macro-mess
  • Musical instruments are made to be played, not to collect dust. If you have an old musical instrument you don't use, give it to someone who will put it to good use.
  • If you have a hobby or interest (like camping) that comes with a lot of equipment, find a way to keep and organize only the most up-to-date, useful pieces and unload the outdated duplicates. Nobody needs three six-man tents or six coolers.
  • If you're hanging onto unsightly gee-gaws you don't use, get rid of them. If they really meant something to you, they wouldn't be lying around collecting dust.
  • Create specific spaces for specific activities, like home beer-brewing. Nobody needs to see your alcohol fermenting in the middle of a room.
  • When you move from one place, or one country, to another, take the opportunity to purge your old things to make way for your new life. Don't leave your abandoned clutter with a relative.
From Sock it to Me
  • Unless you have just one foot, there is no reason to hang on to gobs of unmatched socks. When a pair of socks divorces, respect their choice to separate and give the extra sock the boot.
  • Plastic souvenir cups may bring back warm memories of some of your favorite NFL games, but you don't need the cups to hang on to the memories. Unload them.
  • Old magazines just occupy space. If you've read them, dump them. If you haven't read them and they're more than three months old, they're history.
  • Don't spend years hanging on to adolescent clothes in hopes of handing them down to younger siblings. Fashions change, the younger child will want new clothes, and the old clothes will only take up space. Give them to someone who can use them now.
From Meditation on a Mess
  • Do you actually use ALL of your holiday decorations? Or are some just outdated duplicates of what you actually display? Streamline the holiday stash and store it properly between uses.
  • Sentimental purchases from memorable trips do you no good if you're not using them. If you have a souvenir item like a mask that's just sitting in a box collecting dust, give it to someone who will actually use it or sell it. You still have your memories. You don't need the clutter.
  • Musical instruments are meant to be played, not stuffed under a pile of clothes. If you're not playing an instrument, give it to someone who will or sell it.
  • If you have created alternate storage for your CD's, get rid of the cases they came in.
  • Tranquility fountains are only tranquil if they're being used. If they're collecting dust and not bubbling out water, unload them.

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