Friday, July 3, 2020

Don't rent storage

How do you declutter a house without renting storage?
Have a plan, a vision for the room or home.
  • Remove things to end destination as you progress on the decluttering process.
  • Trash first is an easy way to let things go.
  • Large furniture, rent/borrow a truck, and some sturdy friends. Take it out and away.
  • Clothing, bag it and donate or trash it.
  • Smaller stuff, box for donation, trash it or deliver it.
  • The process is the same, sort and box/bag items, and get rid of the items as you go.
  • Hoarding situation, rent a dumpster and have at it.
  • Retain only the things that fit your current lifestyle. Let the rest go. Do not keep maybe things. 
Consider the cost of storage. The items that you hold in a paid storage facility should be irreplaceable; chances are, they will fit in a couple of boxes. (Keep backup information on flash drives in a safe place or the cloud. Not in a storage facility.)
If your house or room were to catch on fire, right now, what three things would you take with you? Hum, don’t need storage for that, do you? We can bump the number to ten; the same premise applies.


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