Our homes are an integral part of who we are and if you are striving for change, the first thing to do is to sort out your home.
But this is no easy task. To help you, here is a list of things you can without question throw away, give away or simply hand out to anyone who will take them!
- Leftover wrapping paper
- Business cards from people you don’t need for anything
- Old tickets
- Socks with holes in them
- Receipts you don’t need
- Old t-shirts
- Dried flowers
- Old CDs you’re never going to listen to
- Overstretched hair ties and hair bands
- Old magazines
- Shoes that don’t fit or you don’t wear
- Small knickknacks and trinkets which have no purpose whatsoever
- Cooking utensils — old and new — which you don’t use
- Worn-out underwear
- Beauty accessories you don’t need
- Earrings where you’ve lost one out the pair
- Scarves which you never wear
- Items of clothing that are too small for you
- Gift’s you don’t like
- Old towels
- Old make-up
- Old clothes hangers
- Expired cooking sauces
- Toys for your pets which they don’t play with
- Out-of-date medicine
- Dried-up nail polish
- Expired coupons
- Old paperwork
- DVDs you don’t watch
- Pet food your pets don’t eat
- Old toiletries
- Damaged clothing that cannot be mended
- Stained clothing you cannot clean
- Your old prom dress
- Scratched non-stick cookware
- Old underwear or swimwear
- Outdated or broken electronics products
- Rusty costume jewellery.
- Stockings or tights with ladders
- Pens that don’t work
- Necklaces and bracelets with broken clasps
- Cables and wires you don’t use
- Worn-out bed linen
- Empty bottles of cleaning products
- Spare rivets and buttons for clothing you don’t have any more
- Worn-out bath mats
- Purses you don’t use
- Tableware, plates and glasses left over from full sets you don’t have anymore
- Old pillows
- Worn-out shoes
- Old wedding invitations
- That old tea or coffee set.
- Spare furniture parts you don’t need
- Furniture manuals
- Boxes — you don’t them, really!
- Vases you never use
- Old letters with no sentimental value
- Tourist brochures
- Bobby pins you don’t like
- Old crayons or markers that have ran out of ink
- Containers missing their lids
- Unused stationary, stickers and sticky notes
- Ripped jeans
- Old or broken phone cases
- Old, unused phone or other electronic chargers
- Old spices
- Worn-out bath sponges
- Ribbons and bows for gift wrap
- Postcards or gifts from ex-partners or colleagues
- Frequent shopper cards from shops you never go to
- Empty matchboxes — they have no use whatseover!
- Old bags
- Old calenders
- Old files
- Silly magnets
- Outdated clothes
- Broken Christmas decorations
- Fairy lights that don’t work
- Frayed towels
- Expired food
- USB cables and other computer accessories you never use
- Old and outdated software
- Floppy disks
- Old cell phones
- Old shoes you haven’t worn in two years
- Promotional T-shirts you never wear
- Old cereals
- Old bank statements
- Old utilities bills
- (Also:) Delete email subscriptions from websites you don’t need
- Delete emails you don’t need
- Delete unwanted music from your mobile phone and computer
- Spare buttons that come with newly purchased clothes
- Games with missing pieces or cards
- Old textbooks you will never use again
- Delete reserve copies of the documents you no longer need
- Books you have read and don’t want to read again
- That old house telephone you never use
- Old manuals for electric appliances you no longer have
- Mobile phone accessories you don’t use anymore
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